#135: The meek will inherit

Oil on canvas.  

The canvas is divided into 64 equal, and square, parts.  32 of these feature a word, or two words, either painted black on a white background, or white on a black background, with the pattern alternating to form a chessboard (starting black on white in the top left hand corner).  

The words, written along the top two rows and the bottom two rows are: 

Row 1: confusion, pain, dread, dust, sand, fear, shame and mumbling.  

Row 2: low pay, low confidence, low spirit, low status, low hope, low light, low resilience and low ness.

In the central white four squares of the central two rows (4 and 5), alternating between those rows (ie, B4, C5, D4, E5, F4, G5), white on white, reads: living burial- life above their heads.

Row 7: loneliness, quietness, vicariousness, slowness, rudderlessness, listlessness, opaqueness and fecklessness.

Row 8: shadow, insularity, inability, rocks, stones, invisibility, cells and cold.

On the reverse of the canvas is written, in black pencil, “Or they will be happy with their lot; quite possibly happy with everything they have got.”

#134: Self-portrait XI

Remember yourself in a time when you did not look like everybody else.

#133: Out of time and place

Someone from a particular time and place but not looking as you would expect them to. 

Perhaps they are ahead of their time, or behind.  But there is something about them that does not ring true.  

Perhaps something out of step with their surroundings, perhaps just something unusual for the time.  

Have a think and see.

#132: People

A series of paintings of people looking how you would expect them to look.

#131: The Vibrancy of Colour

Imagine an array of colours and then go find those colours.  

Alternatively, think about an object in your head that you know to be colourful and then go find, and look at, that object.

Where are the colours brightest?  In your mind’s eye or your physical eye?

#130: It is what it is and it is beautiful for it

 An object.

#129: Raymond Briggs

Walk with a Snowman, a Bogeyman, Father Christmas, and/or an elderly couple, even the man himself, and remember.