Continuing to create paintings evoked by living in the North Devon landscape and by the coast. The work varies from ‘naturalistic’ landscapes to formal analyses and deconstructions of domestic life.
(10.09)
After a long break from painting, due to moving the studio around, and other work commitments, I have started to work again. Shaking off the rustyness, the paint is starting to flow again; but ambition and actual skill reveal their differences sometimes – practice, practice…
Sales this year have been predominantly recent landscapes, which has been interesting. So I am exploring this ‘genre’ more, but incorporating the esoteric and alternative elements within this environmental setting, aswell as finding joy in landscape interpretation.
(17.5.09)
I am currently interested in exploring the North Devon landscape through imagery and interpretation of light, drama and atmosphere. I am particularly interested in the coastline and countryside; I experience the seasons’ change and the erratic weather patterns, which effect the environment differently each day and night. I have always found this involving and it is becoming an endless source of ideas to explore through painting.
A lot of my earlier work explored the ‘inner’ landscapes of the soul and psyche, and these dimensions still make themselves felt interacting with the environment around. There is an impulse to try to explore what may be termed the ‘spiritual’ (normal) aspects of life that I find in natural and human phenomena.
(14.5.09)
I hold no distinction between definitions of style of painting. Currently a basic cue for an image is a landscape, a ‘natural’ environment. These provoke an idea or interpretation; a placement; an emotional experience and response; a celebration…
(4.09)
Adrenaline, power trails, footpaths, shoes, coast, paint, turpentine, colour, weather; look, express and sea / see../.
(2.09)
Archetypal Winter arrives as it should and so rarely does. The colours and dramas of the storms invoke excitement, beauty with an edge of danger, and a snowy stimulus. The adapting to environment, the going out and staying in, all become the source for creative interpretation.
(22.1.09)
A new series of paintings. A new year, an unknown quantity. The possible directions are waiting to be discovered. Will a vague boredom with the painting process be overcome by results and graft? As ever, the secret desire to create new imagery prevails. What will influence and inspire me? Will it be multi-threaded diversity or tunnel-vision? Are thoughts and ideas greater than the actual object? Questions which may be answered. New questions may arise within the very work…
