sketchbook play - looking back looking forward

 Going through sketchbooks from the last two years looking at pages that I like for various reasons - I find it difficult to step into non objective abstraction so the idea of landscape is currently prevalent in my sketchbooks. This, even when it is abstract there is still a horizon line and the idea of sky and land. I am thinking its because #getaways are important to me and my sense of attachment to landscape/ocean. My works are always done in the studio taken from memory and emotion.

In the landscape itself I walk, photograph, collecting, some quick sketches if i am organised. Photographs are mostly macro, seeing the small things, patterns, shapes, colours ... abstractions of landscape.

I 'work' every day, slow stitch at night and these things I have learnt -

  • I love what i do

  • love colour

  • I am not afraid of colour

  • I am a messy painter

  • I am not a planner; I dive in and wait to see where it takes me

  • I love texture and layering, a pallimpsest

  • My interest in 'mapping' comes through in my paintings

  • I love to play, am curious, experimental

  • I see my 'failures' as another one in the 'reject' pile waiting to be rebirthed

  • I see my journey so far as short, coming to it late and a case of putting miles on the canvas - an important part of any apprenticeship.

I look forward to seeing where 2023 takes me as i continue exploring and discovering what i love in painting.


*palllimpsest - noun

  1. a manuscript or piece of writing material on which later writing has been superimposed on effaced earlier writing.

    • something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form.
      "Sutton Place is a palimpsest of the taste of successive owners"

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