The new works


This New series of work is just pure joy and fun to create, that is not to say that it has not arrived without the basic or some specific requirements such as elements of composition and pallet, of alchemy, chemistry, mystery and even a hint of the magical in relation to how the colours bend and gel together, where differences exist in relation to my thinning and thickening of paints one colour will push another aside or simply 'mix in', as well as the practical  mixing of paint and thinner, there is also my relationship with the canvas, the paints, the space, birds feeding at my window and soft rain dampening down the sounds beyond, contrary to the energies within the work, my personal and work-space is borne of a sense of separation from the world in a place of Peace and creative saturation. 


It is quite a prolific period for me, much painting time has been sacrificed for the Castle Project that needed a period of priority, now, with a bigger window and much achieved the Castle can be without me for a few days tho even while working on the castle I have still managed to snatch a few moments for trials and practice either in small canvas pieces or in thought, now with time to paint  I  take what I have learned and discard what hasn't worked to produce these works.

That is not to say that the trials and experimentation is finished, I still have to work on the surface texture.  When first dry the surface area of the painting is '' glass smooth '', over the days and weeks the underlying paint will dry slowly and as part of that process, the surface 'wrinkles and buckles' forming tiny points of reflected light along the ridge that remains; I await to see how these images appear once that process is complete, if unsatisfactory I shall have to find a way to fix the problem.
  Currently these works are unnamed, they all give me an emotional response though it is not that which I respond to most, it is the imagery that exists within the eye of the viewer, there is so much within each painting, men in boats, small animals, people, landscapes and a multitude of other entrancing details, each one a very personal scene.
Till that time, best wishes
andrew

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