Room 9a – The Carlton Arms Hotel, New York
I spent March 2016 as one of nine artists in residence at the Carlton Arms Hotel, staying in New York for free in return for painting a room. The Carlton Arms is one of very few remaining relics of old New York, a leftover from the days of artists, punks, crazies and weirdos. It’s special and wonderful and there’s nowhere like it. As the Carlton Arms T-shirt says: it’s the hotel you’ll never forget. Here are some photos of my visit and of 9a, the room I painted.

Fog of ideas
- The door to room 9a
- Before starting
- Before starting
- Thinking ‘what on earth am I going to do?’
- Five adventurers appear out of nowhere – or my subconscious
- There’s a wood up ahead
- Fog of ideas
- Trapped in a picture
- Trapped in a sea
- Skeletons in the closet
- Entering the bathroom
- Falling
- A useful man
- Chino cleans the windows before the opening
- Hidden signature
- Finished!