Not having to produce work to sell and provide a living for myself has certain freedoms, but it also can be a disaster when it comes to producing a quantity of work. I find that life gets very cluttered when time is ‘free’ of the daily routine of employment, and it is so easy to fill with many things that don’t relate to art.
Such has been the last 2 months and although I have participated in both a pop up gallery in the Taproom Pub in Islington and the Hertford Open this year, I have done very little serious painting.
However, I have managed a few sketches which are the basis of some new attempts at painting now that we are in the month of May. The rapeseed fields are awash again with bands of bright yellow all over the countryside and the spring revival has brought back those vivid hues of green in trees and fields. Somehow I don’t feel confident with any large work at present and so have chosen to use small pieces of hand-made paper with a gesso ground as the basis for some expressive interpretations of local landscape. The sketches were done with my grid template again and I really feel that this helps to produce intuitive mark making and reduces the temptation to go detail.
Here are some results of some small paintings from a view of the Bedfordshire downs near Ivinghoe.
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