The creation and inspiration for a painting
We climb the hill behind our house, my mother and I, on a July afternoon on a day of sun and cloud . The land ascends steeply and, up there, like a bird , you are above the view and above sound and you can look down on the hills and the trees and the valleys, a patchwork in miniature spread out below you. In a trice you could run and jump and spread your wings and fly and see everything small small small below.
The buzzards are mewing above and far off we hear Patrick the goat herd talking to the goats ‘ Alllez, allez ‘ and calling to his dogs. Just like Heidi we say, Heidi and her goats .
And now at the top we sit among the long grass and I look down at the green and brown and gold of the seeds and weeds and leaves and stems alive with buzzing and crawling ; its own scuttling bustling world .
I once saw a hand- drawn cartoon on television of a boy on a boat on a lake and in the first part it pans outwards so the boy and then the lake and then the country and then the world gets smaller and smaller and smaller and then it pans inward and you see a fly on his knee then inside the fly and inside the parts of the fly and then inside the cells inside the parts.
And this is what I think of. The near and the far. The up close and far away. The big and small . And this is what I think of when I pick up my paintbrush and have tried to share with you.
WINTER EXHIBITION
3 - 31 March 2023
3 - 31 March 2023
Restaurant La Chamade, 90 Rte de la Plagne, 74110 Morzine
An exhibition of original local landscape paintings featuring large colourful exuberant acrylics on canvas
Original artwork for sale.
Also taking orders for framed and unframed prints.
Happy to take commissions
