I had my first
pair of glasses when I was 5, a massive -3.50Dioptres, eventually landing up
with great heavy lenses at -11D. Then contact lenses for years, and eventually
bilateral cataract surgery leading to a blissful unbespectacled period of time,
followed by the partial loss of sight in one eye and a return to glasses. But I
love my small clear world, which I have had all my life. My paintings are clear,
because as I use photographs and sketches for reference, and paint on a canvas,
everything within that space of under a metre is clear. Beyond that all is a
haze. So I want to celebrate that clarity whilst I can. I sometimes use the
permanent double image that I have to make paintings, as I feel it makes for
interest ‘copy’. I think that this is the reason why I cannot think in abstract
terms, my attempts at abstract paintings have been meaningless to me: my brain
needs to find a reality – the fusiform gyrus is strong. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20617881)
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| Poshina Pond 2016 oil on calico on board 110x80cms |
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| Orchha Dawn, Madhya Pradesh 2016 oil on calico on board 110x80cms |
