A Remembrance of a Previous Summer

Remembrance of a Previous Summer

As I was saying in the last blog entry I prefer things to be square and I haven't worked out why that is.  It leaks out in other areas as well, as I like notebook with squared paper in them.  It started off as wanted to have the lines closer together, but I am straying from the point, here is another piece that is taking the new style towards an area that makes me feel happy with.

This piece went through a few changes that is for sure.  All my work gets over painted again and again until it feels comfortable to say that is a finish piece.  That is why this piece is from June and there is a big gap.  I didn't stop painting during that time, although I didn't paint as much as I could have, it was because I was unsure of the direction to take three other works, one of which is the largest sized canvas so far.

In the middle of working on this piece it was not unlike 'History of the River' in as much that there was a large expanse of blue in the middle which had to go.  It was not because it was similar as the previous work but because it didn't feel right.  When the two sides were joined it was clear that this was the way to go.  For me when I look at this piece I know that I am talking about the warmth of summers gone.  It was that simple and I couldn't argue with that.  At the top of this painting is a patch of almost grey this was inspired by the summer of 1976 when I went on holiday with my parents and the beautiful summer that we had broke with a storm and for the week or so that we were there it rained most of the time.

It is very satisfying to produce work that has a personal emotion for me and I hope that when someone owns this and has it on their wall that they are moved in much the same way as me.