'Cool Yellow Harbour' 50x40cms
Made during last weeks course in Port Isaac. It's Port Isaac but of course it's Porthleven too...Cool yellows - Lemon, Primrose, Indian Yellow mixes against a just-purple stripe. The conscious/unconscious looping black line, pure and free, securing space. The wedge of grey, critical and holding its own amongst the gang of yellows....The final refinements the two small yellow brushmarks, below the black-line bottom-centre and up the right-side, creating another movement...
The painting began with a demonstration of why the knee-jerk blue sky against green hillside is rarely the most exciting palette in a landscape...
And now it's here: an operation around my eye tomorrow. I needed to do this painting.