Awakening – revisiting Gosford (1d)
An artist friend once said to me, that it‟s
important to put the photograph away at a certain
point. I get where he was coming from. The
photograph can serve as a great starting point, yet to
be to overly tied to it will only enforce limits and
boundaries on the painting. I started another Gosford
Afternoon two years ago, yet as I progressed it simply
wasn‟t working, so I put the canvas away. Until, just a
few weeks ago, when I was looking through my
canvases and I decided that it was time to visit
Gosford again. I pulled the canvas out and looked at
it. I didn‟t ponder or spend any time thinking. I didn‟t
look at the original photo, drawing or previous
paintings. I just did what I recall one of my favorite
artists, Lloyd Rees, saying, and I „attacked the
canvas‟. I knew that I had to take a risk and push
outside of my comfort zone. At this time I am pret ty
happy with how Awakening – revisiting Gosford
turned out (1d) Is it the painting of the century? That
doesn‟t matter. It only matters that I pushed and took
it further.