Artist's studio, early morning 66 x 56cm, oil on canvas, framed emerging artist This is a study I

This is a study I painted in my studio looking through the window to the Plane trees outside - the subject and muse for many of my paintings

I was studying another kind of destruction

Whilst the film was about the destruction of lives in Cambodia

Back then I believed that the trajectory would change

If you’ve ever stood in an expanse of logged forest

Artist's studio, early morning 66 x 56cm, oil on canvas, framed emerging artist This is a study IThis is one of two paintings I did of the inside of my studio which I'd prepared a vase of Plane tree cuttings to make studies of. After the studies, I decided to expand the view and paint the studio behind in all its messy chaos!