By the way, these heart shaped paintings are quite small, the Despard exhibition eventually had nine small hearts and three large oil paintings: The Secret, A Tasmanian Childhood and The Waterhole. As well as a few pen and ink/watercolour drawings and a couple of old oil paintings. The older work included one abstract from a period of time when I decided that it was time to have a holiday from my own style and practice of obsessively revisiting the same imagery; hence working with the purely formal elements of painting (colour, form, tone, texture, light) was really enjoyable, but it didn’t last long.