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The last box of 10 canvases: opened today.

Famous Last Words

I spent a morning looking at it and decided I just couldn't live with those colours.

"Unless you say goodbye to the things you love and unless you travel to completely unknown destinations you can merely expect a slow wearing-away of yourself and an eventual extinction."

GEORGE DUBUFFET

Mellow Fruitfulness

Quince 1: Insouciant Hansa Yellow, Carbon Black and a little Titanium White. But it has nothing of the subject's weighty, muscularity.

Quince 2: An attempt to do things properly. But the underpainting is too wet and Carbon Black infests my colours. When I attempt to resolve the shape I lose my way. The end result is merely safe.

Quince 3: I seem intent on boring myself.

This feels a bit more like painting.

Inselaffen

The portrait is complete the moment it looks as if it might speak.

Inselaffen is a name that Germans give to the English.

It means ISLAND MONKEY.







Like all remote islanders, we love our trinkets. 

A Way A Head

Trying to make the face only as visible as the paint...

and vice versa.

Landscape

 

I soon realised I wasn't ready for wide open spaces. I had to get lost in the woods first.

A journey of several days.

The Words

LIGHTNESS, COLOURING, TRUTH