BIG day today…Emily is on HMS Ark Royal helping to…(OSA, official secrets act)…and I've decided to begin a series of watercolours related to emotion.
They will be contemporary calligraphic mark-making using watercolour and oil pastel. Digital images will be taken to record the creative process at each relevant stage and posted on this blog as an unique record. This is something I've wanted to do for a while and now with so much emotion flying around there'll be absolutely no *ucking about…
'Graham's response to landscape is contemplative. Creation becomes a challenge as every mark is considered as the aesthetic process unravels towards sublime resolution. Graham's preoccupations are undoubtedly formal, but his technique relies on more than simply a conscious arrangement of shape and colour. Graham aims to intuitively distil the essence of his visual experience in a much more unlimited way. Landscape provides the ideal motif; unrestricted by figures or buildings, an exploration is permitted which ultimately pervades pure creation.' Sally-Ann Schilling. MA History of Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Art Historian and former Lecturer Tate Modern, London
