The Boyhood of Raleigh By Millais
What’s that got to do with the price of fish? your asking me. This painting shows the young Raleigh looking into his future. The Corsair ……..or is he a tary sailair, no matter, anyway we all know Raleigh sets off across the seas.
This is also me at secondary school in the 1970’s listening to my art teachers. In those days I used to paint still life (I wish I still did). I remember a little voice in my head saying I would mature into a Landscape Painter. But the voyages I took never landed there. In fact I never even really became a painter. Raphael, Robert Motherwell or Malcolm Morely, proper feckin painters you know …Breugel even.
But this might be the time to remember that little voice and cross over the water to the landscape over there in the distance I see every day. There has been alot of that water under the bridge since I heard that little voice and I know I will never be a landscape painter in the traditional sense.
So I have decided to be a ‘Landscape Blogger’ instead. It might be even better…….see what comes out?
As for this blog, I guess its dormant, waitng to be picked up in the future maybe?
The title for my new blog will be: Blogging the Blean’.
