Now that I have completed the work for my forthcoming show I normally allow myself a few days of composure before getting back to it. During the summer this would normally mean a bit of quality time in my wonderful tropical garden. Unfortunately the weather being the way it is, I have to find other ways to entertain myself at this time of the year.
Whatever time of the year it is, I always get hunger pangs for travel to far off destinations and escaping somewhere quiet, remote and wild. Sometimes Dartmoor is the ideal place for this if I don't have a lot of time and need to stay local but thats for another entry for another time. 
I managed the other night to combine two of my loves in one evening, the great outdoors and a fine film. I escaped into the wonderful new film directed by Sean Penn 'Into the Wild', for anyone who hasn't seen this, but dreams of escaping back into nature, it is a must. It is a very haunting film and it certainly stirred my desires for such an adventure, I won't spoil too much but it shows how often enough, it is not as easy as it looks, to escape and be happy.
For those of you interested after all these polar bear entries I shall hopefully be releasing a new polar bear print later in the year. So many of you went wild over the new picture of a PB asleep it would be mean to keep it from you.

David