p.s. I don't think this will be there either but I keep fetching it out and looking at it.
vendredi 26 septembre 2014
Autoportraits.October at La Tour, Montsales.
dimanche 7 septembre 2014
Doggedly working through the dog days of summer.
garden towards afternoon.
oil on canvas 80x80cm.
garden, late afternoon.
oil on canvas 80x50cm.
garden.
oil on paper 80x45cm.
mardi 15 juillet 2014
Montsales approaches. A moving target.
As this show approaches I have been trying to do something with the fact that, in the act of looking, one's head is never still and one is trying to get a sense of the object when seen in this way. Slight movements, set down result in a layering which somehow becomes more like. We will see where this leads -it might be ultimately unsatisfactory or it might move me on.
jeudi 10 juillet 2014
Galerie la Tour, Montsales. Autoportraits. October 4th 2014.
I think it was Lucien Freud who commented that painting a portrait was like trying to hit a moving target.
Last of old England.
oil on canvas. 80x80cm
oil on board. 120x120cm
oil on paper 90x90cm.
Anyway we are now into July and I have these on the go:
jeudi 12 juin 2014
Painting in Summer.
Summer painting. oil on board. 120x120cm.
There is too much information to be had looking. Or so much that it is necessary to pare it down or include it all. We have different approaches to this. Landscape painting is all of this and more. The image formed on the surface is a distillation of that formed on the retina and the subconscious, an interplay of decisions made and experience, perception and interpretation.
After making drawings of a part of my garden I turned my back on it and felt my way into the painting.
mardi 27 mai 2014
So I began with drawing.
And what followed really was a tussle to both move away from and yet work from the drawing and the others which had proceeded it.
A week has elapsed and I have made some progress but it doesn't seem to be working out quite yet. The fun is in seeing what happens day to day and also in looking back at older work and finding clues that were missed or simply weren't being looked for at the time.
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