'Revisit, rethink, rework, resolve...'
SUN 28 JUNE
A couple of tweaks today. A thin line rising above the bottom edge that cements the orientation. A stronger triangle on the left, echoed by the tiny open triangle bottom right, A new leaning yellow stripe on the right which makes the large yellow rectangle even stronger. A wristy ultramarine curve across the top - love the curl! - adding movement and vitality to the painting, contrasting the dominant verticality. Painting decisions...
We're done. Now the painting realises that ambition of presence, autonomy and surprise, provoking intrigue, questions: 'What am I looking at?' Blue expressive curve or the wind? Why yellow, why pink? Where am I? Place or a painter's space? 'Image' - piers and buildings and harbour-shape ambiguous and implied by scale and colour incident, subservient to the painting. Abstract or figurative or 'In Between'?
detail
(A)
THURS 18 JUNE
My new favourite! (A). Love the way the harbour sits on the bottom edge and the prominence of the yellow profile that describes the right side of the harbour. I think the yellows are more intriguing spatially as verticals, the painting reading less obviously as landscape, with the tiny sliver of blue bringing depth. There is an exciting range of scale of marks in this piece, the yellows framing an intensity of small but powerful marks.
I'm enjoying the dialogue between the large bright yellow upright rectangle and the yellow block on the left - they are the same yellow. (B) was rejected because I read the yellows at the top as buildings and they shrink the scale of the harbour.
(B)
(C)
WED 17 JUNE p.m.
'Porthleven 67 (The In Between)' that I've gone back to but can't decide which way up! Below, it's called ' Long Pier', above, 'Chimney'. I'm enjoying the lean and movement in 'Long Pier' but perhaps 'Chimney' is more surprising, the harbour more intimate and protected, pivoted on the bright yellow block/chimney, which acts a stop in 'Long Pier'. The blues up the side in 'Chimney' hopefully stop it being a tasteful landscape!
(D)
WED 17 JUNE
This is getting exciting! Each possibility has its qualities and weaknesses. in the portrait orientation above, I love the angled orange line but confused by the two shapes top left and feel I should take the yellows to the top.
The story of a painting:
