Earlier on on the year I made a series of new small quiet paintings. I consider them quiet because of their simplicity. It is tricky to talk about these new works. Do I need to explain them? Well, no not really yet when I am told they are not like my normal work I feel defensive. It’s difficult to encapsulate ideas and thoughts within the fuddle and muddle of the written word. Landscape is my muse and painting my medium. I sometimes think of the land as containing it’s own ideas and thoughts, these change with the day, time and season. It passes on and offers its imprint onto our psyche and souls. Past histories, fallen trees, paths overgrown, stones and hills, our acute awareness of the losses, our optimistic vision, imagination and memory. Our senses and influences are not linear nor singular. They rely on and are energised by each other - a multi directional matrix. My paintings are a reflection of this. Deeply rooted in this experience of the multi faceted nature of the land and the experimentation to find the natural language for the moment. Like the light they don’t need to be explained. Like the stones and hills they are simply there. Yet we have a need to understand. There is no need, perhaps we can just wonder.
I am delighted that two of these paintings have been selected from thousands of entries for The Discerning Eye exhibition Mall Galleries London 2023
Sun Set
Sun Space