I just came on to here after your twitter, I go through exactly the same angst myself, about being rigid and using lines and trying to tidy everything up. I was making leaving cards with my 4 year old son the other day, we were painting a sea and sky to stick a collage pirate boat on and his was way better than mine. We had painted on gloopy wet sea coloured paint and then ‘drew’ lines in with a fork for the waves. his were so spontaneous and there were just enough whereas I did them all regulated and covered the space and mine looked very dull in comparison. I am sure it all stems from school days when it is drummed in to you to do things properly and to try and get it right rather than to explore and follow the media you are using. I think I need to go to a steiner school!
Saying that though, there are so many fantastic artists out there who do actually work rigidly (my hero Stanley Spencer mapped out his drawings to the last mm it seemed and had rigid lines etc galore) and are none the less affecting and brilliant. As you say, you just have to work with what you are but at the same time trying to get out of creative ruts. It is hard!

It is the Loca ‘Showcase’ Preview evening tonight. Some awesome work on display!
Ali White printed off some of my images on huge canvas.
They look great. Nice guy Ali. Like him a lot!

I will post some photos of the show when it has finished if you don’t get to see it at all!

Hope you are well.

Peace and good vibes.

Bazza.