Saturday 27 October 2007

27th October 2007





I have recently completed three paintings. The first, in oil on board, is about the flower, morning glory, the second, in oil on canvas, is concerned with the development of light in a wood and the third a pastel on paper of Woodwalton Fen.
After the three solo shows I have presented this year, the last finishing earlier this month, I am feeling a bit jaded and I have been more or less pottering around with different images in my mind and nothing very consistent.
The assemblages show in Hackthorn next month is complete and I go to install them next Thursday. See - http://www.forgearts.co.uk/indexframes.htm
I have just started on a series of very colourful and textured paintings of varying sizes where the subject is essentially organic but the treatment is metaphorical abstraction. Metaphorical in that the image points to organic forms as they may be affected by the energy of growth and expansion. An example is the germination of a seed. As soon as I have a couple completed I will put them up here.