A good week. Started with the Symposium of Chinese Art at University of Suffolk….the very first day of the new name and status as Suffolk Uni. Proud to be graduating next year as one of the first cohort.
A stimulating, interesting day too.Then on Tuesday and today (Wednesday) I’ve been painting almost solidly. Started with this one…memories of Cyprus.
Then, as I’d already made an image of Catterline, I decided to go on with the theme of making images from pure memory of places which mean something to me. Suffolk was an obvious next choice.
I wasn’t very happy with this. A bit too calm, figurative and yet with no hint of my feelings about the scene. So I started to think back to the Cornwall Residency. This was fresh in my mind as I’ve just been accepted for another week there next year…looking forward to it already.
I’ve actually reworked this one several times and it’s still not quite there. Needs time to settle so it’s sitting at the back of the studio for now. Next I saw a large painting of rocks which hadn’t worked out so I thought I’d rework it. This was better. I used the lines of the original composition but simplified it and used the colours that seemed to pop into my head as representative of the brilliant sea in sunshine.
So, it’s been a good week and it’s only Wednesday ! I must now try to reflect on all this using proper art language rather than this garbled diary description….that’s the hard bit.
