This peaceful picture was the product of concatenation. So much unrelated stuff came together. There were flurries of noisy activity, to-do lists and then a sailboat with red sails.

No sooner had one art exhibition finished than the next one peeped over the horizon.

Yesterday was actually an admin day with lists and agenda’s to be compiled and emails written. Alongside some being on hand to give access to some tree surgeons at a tennis club I do some work for.

So while my head was full of mundane stuff my other head wanted to create art in homage to Turner!

There was a cacophony of  garden hardware, mowers, scarifiers and arboricultural  machines, chainsaws and branch shredders. And just like that a small sailboat sailed past wearing red sails.

The noise and niff naff of the day wasn’t silenced but just moved out of focus for the few minutes this sweet little boat sailed past.

Whenever I look out over this patch of sea I think about the 600 known shipwrecks that are under this stretch of water and the floral tributes and ashes that are regularly set free on this coast.

All of this fed into my current, since yesterday, work in progress.

The location has been anonymised and the reality significantly altered but this will be the foundation of a picture called Crossing the Bar

Which led, of course to Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

And then with the serendipity of Dr Google to The Spooky Men.

https://spookymen.com/a-history-of-the-spooky-men/?v=7885444af42e

And that my friends is how a day that started with paperwork and chainsaws ended with deep and sonorous harmonies.

If you never click on any links I share on these blogs just do it this one time. Your ears will thank you for it. Meanwhile back to the work in progress.

And I am back to a Spookyman playlist.