burst Painting

‘burst’ is a revisited canvas. I had made some work for an exhibition where each room would be a different primary color, ‘burst’ began as a yellow and white painting very similar to ‘red – white’. Some months after the exhibition I went back to the yellow and white painting, this was very much a make it up as you go along kind of thing. First I dulled the yellow by adding lighter tones to the existing work and then more white. Then simply choosing purple because of it being a complimentary color to yellow, applying some of that to the painting and working from there. It was an apply paint, stand back, consider what had happened then choose what to do next. It sort of very naturally came together; I just kind of felt it out as I went along. It reminds me some time ago, sitting on Glastonbury Tor in Somerset, Southwest England watching clouds burst far off over the Somerset countryside. There is something about the color and the way the paint spreads out across the plain from the top of the canvas. Again it is similar to other work in the sense of me trying to catch the memory of something , an atmosphere and feeling from the perspective of it remembered rather than witnessed at the very moment it was happening. The painting was made by placing stretched canvas on the floor. A brush is loaded with paint and then tapped gently above the canvas to give a spray effect; the surface becoming made up of small dots and splashes of paint; giving a little surface texture. Layers of paint are applied one at a time; wet-on-wet or wet-on-dry depending on texture and visual effect desired. Each layer is of a differing tonal value. Each painting is made with as limited pallet of hues as possible. Painting is signed dated and titled on rear. The painting is ready to hang.