Starting on my series..

For the final two terms of this year, we had to write a statement of intent, planning a series on a theme that interested us. My ‘after Wolf Kahn’ paintings had inspired me to start on those paintings of Europe I have struggled to paint. The first is “Elterwater’ pictured here (not a great pic [...]

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Wolf Kahn and Friesach

After completing the Te Uku painting and getting so inspired, I wanted to do another painting ‘after Wolf Kahn’. Inspired by his ‘Deep Purple Barn’, I completed this painting of a building in the village of Friesach, Austria. The photo I took of this had scaffolding all over it, and other stuff, but I was [...]

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Wolf Kahn and Te Uke

One of the exercises from our course which really worked for me – picking an artist we liked, researching him/her and producing a painting as if we had had a conversation with him/her. I chose Wolf Kahn whose paintings I loved for their vibrant colour. My result was ‘Te Uku’ pictured here (now in the collection [...]

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#27

I worked on my ‘The Thames’ painting and it is pretty much finished, something doesn’t quite work for me though yet. I spent more time on this painting today, scratching away at the windows, and something has moved forward a bit. Much happier that I have achieved it’s purpose.
In class, I also did some more [...]

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#26

This week I took my nearly finished but not quite there painting, ‘Holy Trinity’, and bravely scractched out a ray of light, taking it back to the orange underpainting and whitre canvas. This worked very well, or as well as this painting will do for me. I also worked further on ‘Castleton’, putting down the [...]

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