It is 17 years since I obtained my Fine Art Degree. A watershed moment in my creative life. Finally achieving the type of degree I wanted, rather than the career based subjects I chose to pursue at 18. Getting what I had always wanted  was not as satisfying as I had imagined. In fact after I got my degree I went through the least creative phase of my entire life. 2 years of not creating any new projects or attending art courses. A very fallow patch. I think I needed it. A Fine Art Degree was not a bit as I had imagined. Luckily in my 2 years of zero creativity I lived in London and could visit museums and art galleries and stock my mind up with all the things that I had been taught to appreciate in real life rather  than from text books. After the 2 year gap I atarted making art again and have been doing so for 15  years. There is a good bit of art stocked up in drawers and files around my home which is why When I needed to illustrate my  blog of yesterday I could find a sketch of a Leviathan from my stash of art work.

Facebook reminded me today. of a large 2 metre by 2 metre painting that I sold about 5 years  ago.

My leviathan is tiny in comparison but with the magic of a digital manipulation app I can put the two together. They sit comfortably together because the mark-making on both is mine and the relative difference in scale has been altered as can the perspective.

The large abstract painting has gone on its own journey, which is satisfying but the poor old Leviathan has been stuck in a folio with no obvious future, other than the tip when I am in my dotage or deceased.

But by playing around with both today he may have a future as a greetings card or a print. The Leviathan in Plymouth Sound is a catchy title…

Something to think about.