SPRING'S AWAY

It has been a very busy winter period for myself and family what with a whole house refurbish, Spring gardening catch up and a new baby on the way, my daughter's baby not mine and season of catching up with friends, family and work.

Spring always makes me sit back and think how life starts anew, a new beginning, fresh leaves and buds forcing their way through the tired wintered wood on the bushes and trees. Animals foraging for scraps of food and birds making nests for their new recruits. The dormancy of Winter is waning and the sun is getting higher and warmer. This feeling invigorates my inner juices and thrives to make me at one with nature, a sense of insignificance compared to all that is happening around me but then realising that I too have changed over the Winter months and that I must grow this year too, hopefully creatively and not portly.

 What is on our doorstep that we take for granted.

New life forming from the frosts of Winter.

My sketches must grow like the seeds planted into fresh soil, I fertilize my sketches with ideas and surroundings and these too must be nurtured and fed enabling them to grow into pieces of work that I can connect with the outside world. I say the outside world because as an artist I feel that I see the world differently to others and that my eyes capture images in a light familiar only to myself . My family and friends have often say that I live in 'Baz's Bubble'; this bubble being my escape from the 'Normal World' and 'Society' that surrounds me and that I only allow certain people to experience my tranquil domain; in other words I am off with the fairies at the bottom of the garden. Whether or not this is a combination of autistic qualities, peace time and selective hearing that is left to the individual to decide, however I like to call it 'Artistic Temperament'.

 Reflective lights catching my eyes during a sunny spring morning.

I just thought this would be a nice way to start the Blog for this season and to capture the new beginnings, a new start, a new me. I also had a print selected in February for the Ferens Gallery Open Exhibition in Hull, it is one of my old prints from college during my first year, it seems to be doing the course on the gallery circuit so I will let it flow as this gets my name around. Some of my college mates had their work selected too which was great, nice to know we are still creating and exhibiting collectively again.