19 February 2020

Clouds on Valentine's Day




Evening Prayer Brunswick Heads, 14 February, 2020, oil on canvas board, 30 X 25 cm




Evening Prayer Brunswick Heads, 14 February, 2020, oil on canvas board, 30 X 25 cm



A difficult session this evening due to the Western sky being blocked off with clouds. The Eastern horizon was deprived of much luminosity. I think of these evenings as being 'Northern Skies' because they remind me  so much of what happens, too often, in Northern Europe. The colours seem to run away like animals do when hunters appear. One has to pull tears from stone on nights like these. And yet, because of a rainy week I hadn't been out to work, and I was desperate to make anything on the dunes. 

After even a few days of not painting the Sea and Sky I can become weirdly anxious and insecure. And, I lose confidence in myself. These are such small, modest offerings to the big material world beyond me. It may be  insignificant work in the greater large world of Man and Machines, but there are gifts to myself, at least. Without them I am a miser. 



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