I haven’t been posting pics of individual work since Christmas as I have been working on a show here in France that will open mid February so it has been full on. I have been working on about 12 landscapes for the show simultaneously. It has been interesting to work all the pieces up, rather than finishing one and moving on. My style can change according to the moment and how i feel in response to what is in front of me so working in this way has brought the individual pieces more in tune with each other as a whole. An interesting way of working. It also seems to have helped as I am painting landscapes from nature and, moment to moment, the light changes, the sky darkens, mists descend and the colours change madly – we even had a snow storm where nothing was visible. I do love that about working from nature but it makes it hard to paint, working in this way, across a range of canvases, when the light changes I can move onto another that is capturing that light of that moment – the fleeting feeling of light.
Here is a taster of a piece in progress (out of focus and unfinished – that’s not the title just its status)
Olive Trees II, 80cm x 40cm, oil on canvas
The show will run 19th February to March 15th 2011 at The Line Gallery, Linlithgow Scotland. I am putting the final touches to most of the work now so I’ll start to photograph them and post them up as they finish. Then off to Scotland.
