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morning. oil on paper 78x65cms


garden. oil on canvas 100x100cms



Salabert morning ( pink cloud ) oil on canvas 120 x90cms


These three paintings seem to be unalike and yet they are worked with the same intention, that of trying to paint what I think about the light and the space. Feeling and seeing are entwined: are we seeing what we feel or feeling what we see ?
I have two books to recommend. The first is by Christopher Neeve. Unquiet Landscape Thames and Hudson which is adjudged to be a journey through the imagination of artists in relation to the English landscape. I was lent a copy some time ago by a very good friend and it has taken me until now to obtain my own. The second is Landscape Painting Now, by Barry Swabsky, also T and H.
If the thinking is that landscape painting is of little interest then both of these publications ought to challenge that.






 

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