And now for something completely different …After many years in storage, my big bucket of acrylic paints came back into the light of day. I was feeling the need to experiment more spontaneously with colour and texture and so I turned again to painting. I have a number of canvases in progress right now, so check back in the all-new Paintings gallery on the siteThis month’s image is Blue River:

On a recent trip to Venice, I captured many images of texture and colour, of splendour and decay. These images will soon find their way onto this site and into prints, but I wanted to use texture more literally, more tangibly, and also to try and recreate some of the intensity of colour I saw in that city.Venice is also a city of great art, especially modern and contemporary art. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a partcularly fine example, and there are also numerous contemporary galleries along the narrow, medieval streets. It was a series of paintings in a tiny courtyard that really inspired me to pick up a brush again. Whoever that artist was, I thank them.

This entry was posted on Saturday, October 21st, 2006 and is filed under Art, Featured Image, Home Page Archive, Paintings. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response or Trackback from your own site.