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A selection of paintings spanning several decades up to the present. The paintings that are featured in this online exhibition I thought could be seen as a night journey. Not unlike the magical Victorian children's book At the Back of the North Wind, by George MacDonald. As if we were escorted as free spirits to travel through scenes and landscapes of the night. To witness the intimacies and ordinary lives of others. Seeing the human condition, our fragilities and anxieties, love and tenderness. Viewing street scenes in cities, to wander by the sea and get glimpses of teeming motorways. All so familiar to most. Nothing at all sensational, but as in life there is a mystery and ambiguity too.

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The paintings are all part of my attempt to record present day life in a wide sense, in the process often stepping outside my own comfort zone of painting experience. Attempting something beyond, and in the effort finding new discoveries, moving ever on into pastures new, of fresh skills and possibilities. I have steadily painted these present day genre subjects, almost I would say against the trends of the time. But then it has all been my own choice, my vocation. I regard it all as a celebration of our time. Here is a little of witnessed night life, moments in time, imbued with the poetry of the painter's eye.