RECLAME - RECYCLE

So this is the latest project as I think Ive finished the last one..............although it remains on the studio wall just in case. This painting started out as just the figure on the left sitting crosslegged, chin in hand with the faint buildings in the background. I have gradually added the female on the right, a broken action-man figure at the lower centre, hiding just behind the robes of the main figure and at his feet is a naked person with knees up and crossfooted. There are now intimations of figures in some of the windows and, above the female is a falling naked man. I cant do much more to it at present as it needs to dry thoroughly.

I have been making an edited folio especially for the one night stand at HOUSE TO HOME, BELGRAVE GATE, LEICESTER, on July 24, 2008 and have rediscovered some abstractions I did in the past. I think they are quite good and they have enticed me to return to the abstract in a major way. I cant say I will be leaving figurative work for ever, as I never say never, but it does offer me the chance to simply paint and not worry about the characteristics of the figure. I do get really uptight regarding the facial aspects, especially, of the figurative studies. I recall the abstracts being a nice way of being. Of keeping in touch with the paint for its own sake and indeed have touched on it in the production of the Tessa-like work that appears on this blog a little earlier.

Im now looking forward to producing these abstractions, so watch this space !

bye for now everybody.

(details of the smaller additions to the work. Interesting that the two small males are either broken or about to be broken and the large man is no saint ! All the females in the work are innocents for some reason. Sometimes the reasoning for the imagery in my work doesnt become known until after its completion. Its a kind of non intended meditation. But isnt that the best thing about art? The application of chance, the allowing of inner thoughts to interpose with outer thoughts. Wow, I love that. )