My work in the studio this year has mainly involved working and reworking 'damaged' photos, then making litho-transfers of them and working on them again, and repeating the process continually until the image starts to break down and become more mysterious. Or I've been adapting that process for the public art project. I always find myself pulled back to painting, though, despite the fact that I never seem to produce anything that I'm satisfied with. I often do a kind of monoprinting on the surface of the board or canvas, where I place large sheets of newsprint onto the wet surface, and lift them off to drag some of the pigments off and to add new textures. While most of the paintings I've worked on this year are still nowhere near finished or satisfactory, I decided to pull out all these sheets of newsprint, just to see if they would give me some inspiration. Sure enough, these pieces of paper that I had nearly thrown away were in fact better than the paintings tha...