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- Acrylic Paintings (acrylic paste, paint & gel) on canvas.
- 1. I'm attracted to textures - tree bark, earth, snow and rock formations, water surfaces, waves, ripples, frost patterns...
- 2. I love movement - movement as in a piece of music that builds to a climax and falls
- away. Movement as in rolling clouds and waves.
- 3. I'm fascinated by the passage of time - that we come from somewhere unknown and
- disappear into the unknown. I did a series of paintings that I called 'life Cycles' which
- were white around the edges and danced with colour in the centre. There is such mystery to life. I love the way fog hangs over the water and the earth creating a white mysterious veil over the known landscape.
- 4. I love the play of light - how it emerges out of a cloud formation or reflects on the
- water. I love color, sunsets, sunrises.. Often I mix my paint very thin and use it as a
- wash across the canvas. It puddles in the cracks and crevices of the texture I've used.
- There's nothing more exciting that a deep rich wet colour flowing over the white canvas. I use acrylic gel to re-create that wet look once the painting is finished.
- All of these thoughts appear and re-appear in my art work. Someone wrote about
- Gerald Manley Hopkins' 'Inscapes'- "He understood the visual image to be reflexive, both a window on the world and a mirror of the created and creative self".
- In an age where technology is constantly advancing - where computers and logic
- control our lives, I choose to paint in a totally intuitive style. One layer of colour and
- texture leads to the next and each piece is an adventure. My paintings are a celebration of the earth and its great mystery.
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