THURS 13 NOVEMBER
On the wall today, after the final refinements, I saw 'Goddess', now included in the title alongside 'Amarilla', Denise approves! Amarilla is a Spanish translation for yellow but feminine. For Peter Lanyon, the sea is male but my sea is always feminine...
The extended central purple is now denser and less patchy, a purer curve that pushes/competes with the gang of yellows above. Simplifying in order to see. Freedom...and control: the writhing curves and vertical gestural marks controlled by the paralell-lines of the Fishermen's Pier and the delicate horizontal along the bottom edge.
(detail: gang of yellows!)
(5) View from the sofa...
(4) In good company... 'Porthleven 84 (Stack of Piers)', 'Porthleven 77 (Kasbah)', 'Porthleven 85 (Amarilla/Goddess)'
(3) Nearly there...
SAT 10 OCT
Possibly needs some fine-tuning (3) but the essential new thing, the surprise is there - those central yellows are raw, wild, thrilling!
(2) Harbour and movement...
(1) Beginnings....Blue/orange and white mixes mixes with Prussian Blue and Cobalt Blue