I moved into my studio at the new Yorkshire Artspace building in January 2002.
I spent a long time painting the walls and making the studio ready to move my press in.
Unfortunately the Leadmill studio was so cold and damp that a cog had rusted onto the bottom roller.
It took some figuring out (finally solved by Paul Thomas) and a fair amount of time before I could shift the press the few hundred
yards to the new place.
I was stuck with a clean studio with no press I wondered what I could do. As I looked out of the
large windows of the YAS building I found the answer.
I have always been a bit of a cloud bore, just fascinated by their colours and tones.
I wanted to paint something loose and almost abstract, clouds were the ideal subject. I had done oil paintings of clouds before, but had always included a bit of landscape in the picture.
With this series I decided to paint just sky.
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