Blue Book #IX Painting

This work comes varnished and ready to hang in a black wood float frame. Born in Coventry in 1960 I have been painting all my life - graduating from London's Hornsey College of Art in the early eighties training under John Yeadon and John Loker. My work from then and up into the late nineties followed a convoluted route through the influences of the American Abstract Expressionists and the British colourists Hodgkin and Hoyland. These recent groups of paintings explore my responses to the local landscapes and harbours of North Kent and a development of some earlier still lifes from the early noughties. This painting 'Blue Book #IX' is one of a group which brings both series together, landscape and still-life. All my paintings are the only way I can express my reality, a poem of reality if you like. The arch and circle motifs have been a recurring theme in my work over the years. The shapes seem to be a way to hold the colour still within the image. I have wrestled with a way of giving the feel of content within the images in this case, a book. I have experimented with patterns and shapes using here a pink repeated teardrop. I have eventually succumbed to years of pressure from friends and colleagues and for the first time I have put some of my work out on the market.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:26 W x 22 H x 2 D in

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