paintings
vestiges of endlessly moving prospects

     is a body of drawings, oil paintings, transparency plates and now prints

     the title is an adaptation of Sir James Huttons' description of geological time, formed in the late 18th century, as he viewed the rock formations of Siccar Point Edinburgh;

    'No vestige of a beginning....no prospect of an end.'
 

 From the quick line drawings of our crisp north east coastal skies, as they form and disappear with their suggested 
narrative,
the tonal tempera under painting on panel, used for its clarity luminosity and economy, 

     the cracking of the enfolded oil and varnish as the paintings develop with time and conditions,

     to the blurring and momentary focus as the eyes traverse the transparent double image,

 All have fleeting clarity, an always transitional, often illusory grasp of detail and focus.