Wells Art Contemporary and MA at Bath Spa over - a new painting

Its time, after doing no painting since very early September to start again.  Homage to Stanley Spencer, and a new painting is starting with very lurid artificial flowers, and dark shadows. End of day one -  here goes.  And now, quite a few days later, things are starting to happen, figures are emerging...and then disappearing.

Resurrection of Godney Churchyard

All Roads Lead to Godney

20th August, and I have just had a positive tutorial from Dexter Dalwood, so I am feeling quite good about the work that I shall be hanging for the degree show...he helped me re-arrange it and was interested in the new images, even to the extent of saying that my work had REALLY progressed!  Well, what higher praise can I have than that from one of my painting heroes: that there is really something interesting in the way I have used roads, and that the paintings need to be looked INTO - a small house floating in the sky can seem un-nerving.  'All Roads Lead to Godney': this is the final piece of the series. you have to travel along a motorway to reach anywhere, we are none of us immune from the real world.  This image shows HOW I see: it might be unnerving to some to travel with me.

All Roads Lead to Godney 2013 oil on canvas 163x131cms

Final hang for the MA - now 4 pictures.

MY WONDERFUL STUDIO FOR 3 MONTHS

I Think its Called Something Rude LIke F***

I Think its Called Something Rude LIke F***

I was told the story of an elderly lady who when sitting in the back of the car with her son-in-law driving, looking at the over-brilliant rape seed fields said the above. I really dislike the way the countryside is taken over by this plant in May, and eventually realised after many tries, that a painting would work if seen in the headlights of a car,  (we were coming back from a birthday party by the back roads one night when I realised this).

I Think its Called Something Rude LIke F***
oil on board on canvas 120x100cms

Another View oF El Greco's Tor

I HAD TO RE-DO THIS PAINTING
and as I thought about it, I thought I would paint as I see things, double vision tortion and all
so:
'The Way I See It Is..'

NEW SUBJECT MATTER
13 05 06. and the sun is shining, everything looks clean washed, and so I feel a joyous spring urge for clear colour in the clear air, a willow against a bright sky










13 04 30. Today I feel that I am getting on with El Greco's Tor.  This is what I see from my window, the shining town of white houses around Glastonbury Tor. Sometimes there are storms: this sky came from Toledo. it has been painted in oil  on  a large 164x131cms canvas, & paint using flake white, ivory black, alizarin crimson, prussian blue, lemon yellow and yellow ochre.

El Greco's Tor

Homage to Caspar David Freidrich

x

THE INVENTOR'S SHED

This red shed should emanate energy - a bit like Dr Who's Tardis..what great ideas have been cogitated in this space. another of Godney's 'Monoliths'.

oil on canvas 120x100cms