These have been luscious to work on with new colours and rich autumn tones. Developing a painting takes time, and so I’ve shared some more behind the scenes images too. All paintings are ready to hang, large paintings are on deep canvas, but can also be framed for you.
Often a painting has many lives before it finally settles. I first started this one three years ago. Overly bright initial layers; different, flamboyant, expressive. That first round could have been ‘it’ but it felt too easy. This painting has been worked on and set aside at various times… but I was never quite satisfied it was complete.
For the last year or so, it’s been mainly pale blue, with some quite structured thin veils of colour. Perhaps this was finished; it was rather beautiful, but felt a little lifeless. Recently, I turned it and started writing over it; some deliberate destruction. And from that it breathed back to life. Coming full circle back to those expressive marks – but this time with more history and subtlety. “Tell Me a Story”…. and it does.
click each image for details and scroll down for some work in progress photos.
100 x 100cm (approx 39 inches)
SOLD
100 x 100cm (approx 39 inches)
100 x 100cm (approx 39 inches)
SOLD
100 x 100cm (approx 39 inches)
43 x 43cm (approx 17 inches)
120 x 100cm (approx 48 x 40 inches)
