Drawing (1b)
afternoon I took my photographer‟s crayon and
started looking at tiny cropped in sections of the
photograph. In photograph (1a) you will see that I
marked several shapes. I initially drew this vertically
before making a landscape format sketch, as shown at
(1b)
This drawing (1b) became the basis for my first
painting of Gosford Afternoon. I destroyed that
painting and have no photos to show of it. It wasn‟t a
good painting, as not all of them are. I didn‟t paint
Gosford Afternoon again for three or four years. I
moved on to other paintings. Yet at a certain stage I
ended up feeling that the time was right to look into
Gosford Afternoon again.
I am not sure why it happens this way. It could be
that after years have passed I sense that I have a better
understanding of how to put down what I am trying to
express, and that I can potentially get closer to that
vision – so I optimistically dive in again! I feel that
Gosford Afternoon, shown here at (1c) and created
five years ago, was a turning point for my painting at
that time. I was able to capture the movement and
energy that I was after, without being overly attached
to the original photograph.