'Black Harbour' 80x60cms
Disparate sources providing ideas for the new painting. Joni Mitchell's 'Black Crow' from 'Hejira' on the way to the studio- love that album, all-time favourite. The three versions of Dufy's 'Black Cargo'. Richard Diebenkorn's black and orange 'Ocean Park 133'. The dark paintings of Jeremy le Grice at Tremenheere - stirring.
Inky, dense blacks, mainly Prussian Blue and violet + another: Hookers Green, Magenta, Raw Umber. A single focus - find a shape, find the shape. Paint poured and pushed towards the edges and corners, obliterating the unncessary. Shape refined, drawing and re-drawing, exhilerating, Female. The left-side, dark to light to reveal and contrast the beauty and density of the black harbour-shape. The last act: the fat pale- blue brushmark, top to bottom- twice. Spawned by Porthleven, this painting escapes 'place' and simply 'is'.
A last look at the sea: it's relentless, like life...