Winter Print

Painting : oil paint, oil sticks, textiles on coarse linen canvas / wood stretcher from Marin Beaux Arts, France. Paris, mid winter blue skies cold outdoors. Buildings rooftops, grey clouds, even brown clouds. Where I am and how I feel psychologically is what I will paint. Recently moved into a new art studio in Paris, white walls, white lighting. I have emphasized textures and a more direct form of applying paint using palette knife and deciding to paintbrush the coloured space or leave it brutally painted, rough and textured. I play rough against smooth, lines next to flatter areas. A painting is a visual and a physical experience when there’s a generous instinctive use of whatever materials needed in the painting process. “There is only one valuable thing in art : the thimg you cannot explain. … Georges Braque