"Fragments #2" Painting

I can remember watching my parents in the 1950s decorating one room every year in their small semi-detached house. I can remember the random mottled pattern of faded pastel colouring revealed on the plasterwork under a layer of wallpaper being stripped off with warm water and a scraper. Those faded mottled colours were the residual traces of distemper which had been applied to the household living spaces during WW2… although watery paint was cheap, wallpaper probably wasn’t available. My technique with this painting is to use a palette knife - cranked like a trowel, not one with a straight blade - which I hold lightly between forefinger and thumb and, charged with a little paint, is dragged across the canvas surface, but barely touching it. Many paint spots and smudges are deposited, but at random. I have an idea of where I want paint to appear but I have no idea of the precise effect and colour combination it will take… all is left creatively to chance. However, the finished effect pleases me and reconnects me to parts of my childhood past, so I am naming the ongoing series “Fragments.”