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Crane  40x30cms

 

SAT 17 SEPTEMBER

The 'demonstration' painting from the September 'Freedom in Painting' course in Polruan. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they are a beginning...I had to wait a few days for the paint to settle down - to avoid it sliding off - before I could have a proper look on the wall.

It's fresh, it's exciting, it's different, it's done. There is both a flat-space and a hierarchy of receding space. The pink-shape establishes 'foreground' and holds back the yellow. The small purple marks at the top of the canvas, and the layers of paint tucked behind each other, together (accidentally) establish 'distance'.  Beautiful paint. The crane is a lifelong motif but specific to this wonderful place. It says Polruan to me.