oil on paper. 30x18cm
I wrote a piece a while ago entitled, Landscape doesn't go any where, and I was wrong because of course it is going somewhere all the time. It builds up and it gets ground down and it moves, often slowly , sometimes not.
We engineer it and given time it reclaims itself. It knows nothing of our endeavour and yet I still feel that we construct it mentally and emotionally no less so in painting which, in my case , is a landscape as metaphor in flux. I build it up and break it down. No painting is immune to my depredations. If they leave to go somewhere else then they are I suppose, inviable but if they stay with me then they are subject to change, not always for the better but that is the risk one takes.
Beautiful, serious work. You might enjoy the landscapes
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Cheers,
Tom Mderos
Tom, It's a real pleasure to be directed to paintings that make one say, OhYes as they appear and I will continue to check in on his work. The I sought you out and had the same gut reaction. Images flitted into mind, Diebenkorn, Hopper, Mathew Smith, but the work of both of you makes me smile and that is a very very good thing. There is a raft of interesting blogs: some you may well know, Painters Table, Painting Perceptions, Sharon Knettel, Ilaria del Turco. People with interesting things to say who can back it up. Thank you for contacting me. I hope that we can stay in touch. Ian.
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