I think I can re-focus on painting as a main means of attaining something.

I can see that I`ll have to develop a different relationship with it than I had before. I think thats for me the next show will define that new realtionship, in tat all the pictures are from the last year , in Brazil.

Looking over that work I think I can say that the new attitude is basically concerned with painting pictures within short periods of time, usually a day or two day`s work.

It`s also exclusively landscape, or architecture. I tried working on some still lives, but I feel the moment for that has passed.

Similarly, I can`t seem myself doing any more portrait work. I just dont enjoy it enugh, the close relationship with the sitter just isn`t that comfortable for me.

It`s very nice to be entering one`s forties with a clear sense of ones weakeness and strengths, and of what you enjoy or don`t, having tested yourself.