Cloudlands

The enchantment of boundless and inescapable expanses of East Anglian sky.

Three Score, Ten and Moonshine

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Painterly Terms

Twin Flames

Pentimento – a visible trace of a previous painting beneath layers of paint on a canvas.

A strange, inexplicable sense of recognition, connection and rightness.

Painterly Terms

Subsumed by Longing

Expressionistic – tending towards the expression of emotion as opposed to objective description.

When you can’t speak the unspeakable you are left with a longing to think what you can’t think.

 

The Boxing Day Walk

On my walk today I had John Aldridge very much in mind with the fairytale quality he brings to the everyday Essex landscape. Let this glimpse of a walk, through an unidentified yet actual place, transport you to a more heightened and perhaps painterly realm!

Stepping Out with so much mud…hard to romanticise this!

The sky was lucid, the clouds playfully raced

Christmas red berries imposed some colour

An early milk-white snowdrop, the Flower of Hope, delicate amidst the green.

Weathered, crumbling walls – patterned, abstract and austere

Perpendicular lines…

…calling to be explored

Dream a while on the old bench before returning home.

White Light Folded

“You create a space for thought as opposed to dictating a thought.” Marina Adams

Since putting up some Christmas lights around the hall I’m beginning to really feel the season of light and reflection. I love the fact that the illumination has several levels. I’m reminded of this reflection on Robert Ryman. It’s an interesting commentary on the power of white.

The Beauty, The Desire in Willem de Kooning

I’m fascinated by Willem de Kooning’s interest in the body and his extremely complex examination of the female nude. It seems inadequate to call him misogynistic. I believe that there is an energetic tussling occurring with himself, the feminine in himself and his relationship to it.  Woman I  apparently had up to eighty paintings worked on the same canvas before the final image was realised. The Kiss from 1925 is a powerful yet gentle expression of the energy and flow of love and desire. “Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that “I” and “you” are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.” Sigmund Freud