The Lost Property Dept is now open for business.

To mark the opening of the ‘Lost Property Dept’ this is officially the first post for that page………

Found piece of driftwood. Hunstanton Beach, Norfolk, UK. 1992

It was a particularly cold and windy, winters day (par for the course) when I decided that this was coming straight back home to be dried out and prepped ready for some paint action. It was not until the following spring that I actually got around to doing anything with it. By then fully dried out and the climate in the throes of new beginnings I decided to paint it up as a tribute to the season of spring. Roughly inspired by the sounds of jazz I was listening to back then and the graphical style of Saul Bass (the hands) this piece was painted with one coat of various colors blended together. Once dried I then fine sanded back along the grain to take most of it off leaving nice tints here and there, next up was the main elements painted in Acrylic. It was then decided as an afterthought to include some flowers and leaves that I had laying around (all pressed to perfection), these were varnished into place with about 5-6 coats in total.

16 years later its taken on an antiqued look  with the amount of varnish that was applied.