NEWS

 

The painter's mantra

Another year, and time to think again about how to look at the landscape, how to get back to a more instinctive approach to painting what I see, how to loosen up - the perpetual challenge for artists - bring more energy, more colour and line.

Over that last couple of years I have been focused on my home ground here in the South West - the coast and the high moor - and my paintings have gone back a little towards a more literal and realistic treatment. Now I want to move a bit the other way again - still painting the South West, still going out sketching the familiar old ground and finding the compositions out there - but back in the studio working with more freedom, trusting my instincts and my feel for colour, shape and line.

The painting ' Haytor from Harefoot ' was painted just last week, might get altered a bit, might not, but I think this is where I'm heading. This new collection of paintings will be here in my Chagford studio until I deliver them to the Dart Gallery in Dartmouth in the Spring.