Sunday 20 January 2013

I'm painting the garden and George's shed. I'm working from  photographs as it's far too cold to sit outside. The images below were taken from the car window yesterday. The snow is thawing here and much of the snow is slushy and wet now. There is colour in the landscape but very subtle. Oddly the Beech forests surrounding us are coppery still. Leaves  still on the trees. The grass is in unusually good condition and as the snow melts it's still green. It's startling to see my painting against the images below. I seem to be cranking up the palette. I think I have always been a colourist at heart. I'm more toned down these days but it's often bubbling underneath the surface. I remember being interviewed for a place at St Martins School of Art in London.  My paintings were really bright. We used a lot of Gouache in out art college preparing for a place at University. I tended to use as many colours as possible in all my projects. Colour is very much on my mind through these days where light is low and snow covers the land and trees look so dark. I still see colour everywhere but it's a very different experience.





4 comments:

  1. How wonderful - it looks like pastel. Reminds me of the folk-art paintings on barges for some reason. Is the bicycle rideable, I'd like to take it down the lane.

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  2. I think you'd find the cycling a challenge around here. The Tour De France come through occasionally. That bicycle is a real beauty. It's from around 1910 and called a 'Col De Cygne' or Swan's Neck. Unfortunately its a bit rusty and the frame is in 2 pieces. I see them for sale and I'm hoping to find one in ride able state. I had been wanting one and found 2 in an old dump in the woods. I might have another look in spring and try and put the frame together. It would be lovely to get it going again. Perhaps I could sell a painting and find an old bicycle!

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  3. Lovely. Such a start contrast to the monochromatic world around you just now.

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  4. Lovely colors....I am very fond of color myself...

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