Fresh supplies of paint and new brushes combined with a desire for faster progress have seen the project move forward with new vigour. An effort to push the processes into new places is also in evidence - necessitating calls upon the knowledge of what has gone before. One canvas currently owes as much to a close reading of a Cezanne I saw earlier in the week at the Courtauld as it does the source images from the chosen location. Dark blues clash with a pungent cadmium orange overlaid by an equally fierce emerald green. Allowing these more intense colour schemes into the work takes the pictures firmly out of the representational arena - rural Leicestershire in the deep winter rarely reveals such strong colour intensity. However this is not a body of pictures of the topography of the district but more my personal exploration of what painting can be more than a century after cezanne made Le Lac D' Annecy. Much the same can be said of a memory of the button on a coat in a painting by Vincent Van Gogh...see below...!
You can't do better than look closely at Cezanne! This picture seems to signify a change of scale in reflecting and responding to aspects of the environment you are considering. It seems to me that it is an emotional journey through landscape and an inner space that embraces the synthesis of visual sensation and imagination into the plasticity and artifice of the painted object.
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