History of the River

History of the River

Inspired by 'Earth Says Hello' and wasting no time this slightly bigger piece was produced.  It was produced by using the same method and it proved that for me it was working.  A close artist friend of mine had said that in my earlier works that they were busy and I had taken this to heart.  I realised that there was a lot going on and the reason for this was that there was a lot going on in my life at the time.  Thinking about this long and hard for a while I realised that once I was settled in a new home that I would use that feeling and that emotion to plough it onto the canvas and make art that reflected those emotions.

There is a lot of blue in this piece and that was a conscience decision to make sure that happened this time.  There is never a plan but sometimes thought is given to colours but never to direction.  Through my eyes I could see that this was piece that was like a coloured map.  I may have been mapping out the future, but what was this piece telling me?  

Inspired by artists that listen to music as they paint to evoke an emotion.  I was listening to an American band by the name of The Preston School of Industry and so as I was listening to the album I knew that for me that the song that was speaking to me the most was called 'The History of the River'  as this had a lot of blue in it, it was safe to say that this represented water, a river in other words.  Green was the land covered with trees but what about the fiery orange, well I took that to mean that was the land which man has devastated and built on and in some case over-populated.  This was in some respects an important piece in the development of my art.

Both of these piece being produced very quickly with only a couple of weeks between them was also important to maintain the style I was working towards and in that respect I was right.  There is a new to produce and so that is something I will be doing over the summer.  There is a need within me to release the artist.