I’ve shuffled sidewards somewhat and settled into position.
The comfy old style is sitting very nicely with me at the moment. That old armchair has had a revamp and come out the other side looking better than before.
The abstract painting is taking a back seat while some new representational and figurative paintings have a revival.
Without peers or anyone really to look at the work I do, I now think I was getting stuck in a rut.
I was going down the road but had somehow lost my direction.
I feel more confident in what I am doing, it’s a bit like coming across a friend you haven’t seen for many years and striking up a conversation as though it was just yesterday that you last met.
I have to admit I am working from photographs, but I have a good excuse for this. Well two actually now I come to think about it.
No. 1 I can’t stand the cold, or the cool or even the luke warm. I need warmth and plenty of it or my hands and feet go numb.
No.2 I can’t work with people around. I need to be in seclusion with perhaps the addition of a radio.
I have always felt uncomfortable working with anyone around. This didn’t always go down well at college as, although I attended all day, most of my work was done at home. Ce la vie
Some things you grow out of some you don’t.
And like my days at college a lot of my prelim work is also now done on the computer so I can manipulate the photo’s every which way to my hearts content.
The painting is my ‘artistic impression’ in oils.
I am hoping to capture the spirit of the city in an artistic representation, not a photographic documentary.
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