Pitstop to Red Bluff Painting

Abstraction always seems to be at odds with configuration. As an artist I may go in one direction, leaving behind painterly language that suggests
a picture is a representation of something in the world, and sail ever on towards a realm of form and colour cut adrift from the real. Or they may idle in the warm glow of recognisable places and things. In this painting I try to balance between the two. Whilst it is predominantly a landscape scene
of a place along the West Australian coast there are enough clues to find a ship, a sky, a cloud, a hill or a horizon line within. The uniting factor here is the style which is a loose and gestural approach to making paintings that is also considered and deliberate. Creating paintings from locations is where I best find inspiration. From
this process and the initial drawings
in particular, make a deliberate move away from the realistic and more towards a direct dialogue between the imagination, memory and the canvas surface and materials.