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Waiting to Blossom.....
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Life imitating art, or the other way around, whichever it is, it's making me a better artist and a better person as I learn to embrace the wait.
Exploring people and how they view themselves
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After these last 18 months or so of exploring abstracts, I find myself frustrated to the dickens with this genre!! I love colour, but I've also discovered I desire some sort of concrete object to paint, regardless of whether it's from my imagination or not, to help express what I'm wanting to put colour to. I've done this for a few years now with my fruit paintings. Symbolically used the fruit to depict various emotions, ideas, concepts, and experiences. I thought that maybe I could go without an object and get the same result purely with colour, but I didn't...
The art of healing
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The art of visible mending for humans. Painting style.
Ugly Paintings
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So I have discovered over the years that all my paintings go through a woeful 'ugly' stage. Years ago, this was the point where I'd give up on the painting. The start was beautiful, it was going along as I envisioned it, then next minute.... U-G-L-Y you ain't got no alibi, you ugly painting, you you ugly!However, in my glorious ageing and dawning of maturity, grace, wisdom, serenity, and all sorts of other claptrap, these last few years have seen me push through the ugly stage, and emerge out a better painter on the other side of the canvas. Far from...
The symbolism of death
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Death to death! The continuance of painting my way through the fear of death in my 'Still life Still death' series. Thank God for winning this one!