Now I’ve mastered writing I’ve started painting. The idea behind the painting is ‘what cannot be put into words has to be shown’ - the opposite of Wittgenstein’s ‘What can be shown cannot be said.’ Though I don’t think he quite said it like that, more like ‘It will signify what cannot be said by presenting clearly what can be said,’ which I have to say I don’t really understand, but then again he changed his mind about it so I think my version is justified.

What I haven’t been able to put into words in the writing is being put into visual images - Acrylic on canvas, keeping it small and keeping it simple, given I have no technique. It takes ten years to learn the trade, it took about ten years for the writing to take shape, nineteen ninety-one to two thousand and one. Mozart was a mature composer by the time he was seventeen but you have to remember he started at seven. In my case though I do have to say at the beginning of the long road towards competence that my first two paintings, which will go up on the website at some point look like what I wanted and I am pleased with them, which is quite an achievement.