After my horse craze and the efforts for Pathways to Abstraction, I have been working on flowers (not too exciting) chickens, fish, still life in a loose abstract way, and plein-air painting. the use of oil sticks has been a lot of fun and allows for a freedom and looseness of style. it sort of brings out the childlike aspect of the self. I no longer feel like doing anything traditional, but still find i have to be interested in the subject of the painting. mostly in recent paintings, i have been enjoying boldness of colour.