SAT 4 JULY
A celebration of purple (and its yellow complimentary). A tilting, rocking harbour tethered to... something. A point of tension, a holding, controlling line, preventing a falling harbour...A similar point of tension with the almost touching violet and yellow discs: will they, won't they, repelling like two positive magnets. This pairing of colours is acute: a three colour yellow and deep violet made from Ultramarine and Magenta.
Simplification, revealing the essential. The left of the harbour drawn by a new purple, the four piers a powerful central cluster, each with their individuality and difference.
Had to have a look at it this way: back to the ship/boat/windsock, a more whimsical painting! Had a great chat about the 2 versions with my son, Ollie, who perceptively pointed out that the line that draws the left side of the harbour is a strength in the version above and a weakness as a 'boat' below. We were both fascinated by the tension between the two discs, the potential energy, the discussion leading to protons and electrons and nuclear physics. Thank-you for enlightening me Ollie!
The drawback as an 'image'- boat- is that the scale is fixed whereas as a vertical harbour the scale is indeterminate and unwordly, thus more evasive and interesting. A curiosity though: once you see it this way, you see the version above in a different light, another layer of interest. Harbour or boat, from the side or from above? All good fun - delicious ambiguities.
'Boat'
Beginnings: an idea about the Ship Inn ' Ship Inn a Ship'! (below) Too specific too soon, but the whites made a great base for majestic transparent violets, the ship becoming my harbour. Chaos (left above) but with the three harbour basins), more ordered (right), purple expanding, yellow shrinking.
