 When you're in the middle of the ocean, you see a ship from about ten miles away and it comes past you It doesn't speak to you, it just sails past. And then you go back on to your journey again It's based around my experiences at sea when I was a young man I was at sea for six years and it was a very Wonderful time as a young man to grow into to grow up and I had No photographs of the time because it was before Not before cameras were invented, but nobody had the same nobody had the same Attitude towards taking photos at the time. So I've got all these memories still of this time and I wanted to bring them to life It's quite difficult actually because you're working as being an older student as I am I've got a different kind of different attitude to the younger students in some ways And I'm quite slow. So things are coming together, but slowly Mainly it's one of time, but I mean, I think it's the same for everybody I can't be a I'm trying to be a full-time student, but I've also got to balance work and paying bills and The romantic side of being an artist is not very practical for me. I have to pick my time very carefully and work accordingly It's a series of paintings Focusing on various legs of a journey of a sailor from the dark north of England Cold and wet to the Caribbean. It's become more focused the exhibition as I've been working on it I've actually seen some sort of metaphor in it as I've been progressing Rather than sort of like trying to relate to the diary of the journey The exhibition is happening on June the 9th starting at six o'clock we think Down here in the Prague-Ofka gallery