A walk in progress

After rain. oil on canvas, 80x80cms.

untitled. oil on canvas. 80x80cms.

after rain 2 , oil on canvas. 80x80cms.

These three paintings are an extension of the idea of what one can bring back from the solitary walk. In the case of these the walk was not far, a matter of yards in fact. However the experience of one thing gives rise to another. The paintings will in time, I hope develop: they are small 80x80cms but could be, should be, much bigger. I can't at the moment remember who told me that small shows you what you can do and big shows you what you can't - referring to markmaking - but it is something to think about.

Museings

Walk. oil on canvas. 150x110cm.

Contemplating a painting constitutes a pause from daily life , an external and an internal pause: the making of the painting is in itself part of daily life . In this painting the subject matter which I think of as having derived from the act of walking is frozen, a moment in time which has given rise to an action which has resulted in an object for contemplation and in fact, in contemplating this painting I know that it will prompt me to look again and change what I have done.

I read a poem by Derek Hyatt:

It is the space that matters most.

The line opens the space between objects. The line moves; the frozen objects change, melt.

The line is life and an image of time cutting space.

The line can be moved

there -

more visible than the trees, clouds and walls.

The line celebrates the mind moving across the

landscape.

The line is the birds flight through the tree, cross the hillside and up to the invisible ledge

of the cumulus cloud.

Follow me, cries the line

Draw into me, cries the blue

Slice me in two, cries the yellow

Criss-cross my surface, cries the red

Bind us together, cries the lover.

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