Maxim Peter Griffin

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look / draw / repeat - works nights - author / artist - flint / chalk etc

small hours big time chopping the night into three divisions to better consume the minutes lumps turn into dots into black bands stellar field pass into distortion until morning
small hours big time night shift in the hot house the water's sweating 3am - you're an oil projection blobs in collision
small hours big time black oblongs return the struggle continues
small hours big time a bronze age barrow in the wheat - Lincolnshire, 2am right now it's perfect the harvest will begin at first light
The cover of Hookland Fragments Volume 1 by David Southwell A slim black tome with a print of the ghost bear dancing with stars and bones upon. Here the book is seen on my kitchen table which is a bit splattered with paint
small hours big time the original drawing failed so here are the three black oblongs the text was lifted from the first book to the left then chopped, erased etc and reads as follows a breach, empty and black the most remote stars continuing
small hours big time starry after the heat walking on disused railway to the late night garage for a tin of pop
small hours big time a hot night, a wobbling blob listen to Derek Bailey and wait for the heat death of the universe
small hours big time residual heat blistering the celluloid of the night three panels in the usual style black ink and oil
small hours big time something different - a moon made of crudely marbled paper and ink cut in a circle and laid on a ragged black oblong painted over pages 2 and 3 of the Bartholomew World Atlas, 1974
small hours big time proper dark is still short night people stay up for stars and things 2am Monday - away from nonsense that's where it's at
small hours big time a canal - 3am getting light something from the rhubarb gently sploshes into the water
small hours big time a car on the back lanes between marsh villages headlights catching a road side cross at the bridge over two ditches
small hours big time the wheatfields - east of town a breeze through the warm night ochre, unlit full of rats
small hours big time night drawings of star fields chopped and arranged in three divisions their positions are correct at the time of writing
small hours big time walking to night shift the path with trees then up the hill to the house on the crest
small hours big time moon's coming up - just - look - Mo moon's in the middle now - moon - full but not high moon's off now - horizon bound westward - on, then off
small hours big time after the evil heat a brick of cans ready - still 30 inside cool things off with that book of E. Shackleton pixs
small hours big time across the gardens - roof angles, tree shapes a brighter night - cooler even bats going about their business town still smells of pizza and weed
Purple flowers Yellow flowers Poppy and plant pots Concrete and the feet of the artist
garden shifted gears overnight many yellow flowers in striped shadows on ochre watering can in hand pouring on thirsty areas you are Monty Don - you are Geoff Hamilton big green shoots, little purple lads poppies too - draw them later
small hours big time after months of silence - sudden attic scampers uh oh - put the radio back up there invite the mice or others to depart with World Service or short wave distortion
small hours big time 3am and 26 inside a white circle on black with stars Solidarity to all our comrades on the night shift and elsewhere
get up / get out draw sun red with orange rising orange with disc leaving the horizon a yellow blob that pops against light blue get up / draw sun / repeat
small hours big time chop up night pictures arrange until the solution presents itself clouds on polka dots - curse of the black oblong then stars until dawn
out with the dog after tea trees on tracks - all the greens - nettles etc remember the late Hockney, 20 years back painting the arrival of spring while you can - keep making pictures keep having fun
small hours big time deep in the art books Minoan lads and Henry Moores weird beakers / jugs little face pots from ancient days
small hours big time still raining - ripples on concrete open the back door - black and white lines heavier - close the door water on glass
small hours big time the long dusk on a north pointing road fields - long grass - fences pausing at the junction where a Lancaster came down then on in the direction of Humber
small hours big time Venus and Jupiter there putting in a late show after evening of storms it stays light a long time garden shapes and house shapes in black
small hours big time getting lighting - half two canal towards the sea lines of black trees a mile away
small hours big time should have been drawing something else but there was a torn page in the road p96 of Little Book of Practical Magic we present the evidence here as a found object - text on torn page suggests 3 pieces of green jade for fortune 3 pieces of tiger's eye for luck 3 pieces of fire agate for integrity and a protection spell for house clearing you will need - white crystal quartz for each room
small hours big time third son has his mates round on sleep over and they have been fighting the American civil war on the kitchen table with Gettysburg ( 1993 ) on the telly in the background - tiny soldiers, dice, sweets - they're 12 and behaving themselves - all good. you come in all Jeff Daniels style and try to wind things up - bedtime kiddo ( it's 1am ), quiet time boys - kiddo 3 squares up with Tom Berenger on his shoulder - massive hat, stick on beard - one final battle? well, alright - you've turned into Sam Elliot ( who was also in Gettysburg 1993 ) in The Big Lebowski - make it a skirmish, and you've got until two
rainy Saturday drawing rain shapes blue marks for water on glass the threat of sunlight depicted as a yellow sky with grey cloud advance over local trees / red houses in our third panel we find more drawings about weather a black sans serif font of British Rail on a wet coloured oblong
small hours big time a formal view of stars ( massed dots ) with frilly border after Steinberg then Venus, yesterday - nearing the horizon - a black line frame finally - black oblong of the night with constellations of speckled ink
small hours big time Jupiter - Orion - Venus in the old British Rail font white and black split across three oblongs prints available at the attached link
small hours big time took a walk - local trees in the long dusk Jupiter there - a little further - Venus also over the unlit houses Jupiter and Venus - getting closer
small hours big time chop up night pictures and rearrange until proper circle in black dots - white star the number three in a plain and official font
all the swifts in big circles playing the Steve Reich hits bloke from 71 brings plants in pots sunflowers, toms, spiky boys, squashes it's gonna rain - he says - one thunder peal pressure drops - weather arrives - good
small hours big time hot house after rain get up - dog follows we off for a walk then? dog agrees
small hours big time seeing out the last light of the month cheers May! a white circle on black - alright moon! hands in the air - hiya June!
small hours big time tonight we turn our hands to sculpture an ominous clay head, painted black and uplit by candles - the face is crude old looking, 50% Tollun Man, 50% Orlok
small hours big time three roads to coast long sky / ditches / Lincolnshire - a bright night a different pitch of tarmac on the outskirts of Boston
small hours big time two am - let the dog out a bed sheet on the line breeze on cotton the motion spooks the dog
small hours big time hot night - get out east from town - canal, track etc a lighter horizon while black trees painted swiftly
small hours big time a hot night - 35 earlier - Venus over the houses the slates reverberate, the house plants thirst a very happy birthday to Marshall Allen who is 102 today x
small hours big time the improper dark of early summer residual heat - never quite night the horizon to the east is a very specific type of blue
small hours big time massive lightning at 0333 thunder that freaks the dog out deeply everything is suddenly awake to the spectacle bloody hell! ( in the shattered font of school rulers)
A homemade model oak 1/100 scale - presented here in the garden of the artist on this sunny morning The garden is full of strange brick towers with moon flints atop
small hours big time five and a half miles south from Cleethorpes down wind of chips and noise - starry the tide's away - shipping lights in mouth of Humber The Pride of Rotterdam crossing the horizon
small hours big time first night of stars after a dim spell the presented drawings are not accurate three stellar divisions - pin pricks and skirmishers massed ranks - dots - a collage of sorts
small hours big time canal - 3am nearly out of town a noise up ahead something sploshing about
small house big time movie rain on Victorian terraces 3am squall of some ferocity a light flicks on eyes peer out
small hours big time the border became dots and second panel entered third dimension you're supposed to be drawing night things and have settled on black oblong
2000 teeny tiny English Civil War soldiers lined up with muskets, pikes, horses and bright flags that I painted for one of my sons - no doubt an engagement from the Hookland campaign of 1643
small hours big time on a back lane in the country until the wide river at the border then toward the A1 road signs to elsewhere by headlight
small hours big time an old friend over for cans by the fire talk goes this way and that until the stars doubled
small hours big time canal to marshland - 3am promised storms failed to break water's brighter than land and there's a glow coming from the direction of the Humber
small hours big time couldn't possibly sleep - 21% moon get up / out / dog before 4 bridleway east - deep in May - black trees first light - tumulus on the map
small hours big time the old muntjac is back again - braying devil style down dog leg alley with the fine blossoms he bolts over two gardens and gets to the river