The Mess of the Painter

Just finished the last of work for Auckland, and all the work leaves Wednesday.

Working to a deadline means lots of mess, no time to be clean and tidy, just do it. Every session necessitates a shower. I get paint on my shoulders from swinging a rag over them. I get paint on my face, glasses, hands, the floor, over everything I touch and then that last photo is after the big clean up of tools from a session. It gets through the house, and I hate that, all over the sinks and the washing machine.

What a relief to have met the finish deadline with just enough time to wrap the work. 170kgs of work, leaving home and making its way in the world. Thanks goodness I am able to clear space. Storing paintings under the stairs is only one place, and I have another on the porch. I keep several types of paintings; my own collection for around the house, ones available for sale, ones that I want to keep because I want to keep working on them, and new boards ready for my next show.

Once I have caught up with all this general painterly stuff, I will be blogging about my work as the ideas develop, and I'm really looking forward to that.