I n t r o d u c t i o n t o I m p r o v p a i n t i n g s.

The Sound of Music tapping into our journey, engaging emotional response,  memory and movement. The push for perfection and the need to learn.

This seems no different to the visual artists journey, our eyes, our memory and our response to movement within our temperament connects us.

If I added a sound to each of my marks, a cacophony of related image would occur, turning a brush into an instrument, its control of colour and attitude in its echo.

As a colour whips and bounces off another colour it starts to build, containing a structure, breaking out, breaking in, harmonising, one brush demanding attention, another flowing softly, gently behind. Image builds then collapses. The response contains in itself an attitude, colour has memory that lasts, it refuses to go away, each mark demands another in support or adjustment.

New thoughts and new stories add and subtract with subtleties or with intensity. A painter holds all images, layer after layer and places the result in front of an audience. It’s the audience who pick the layers to pieces, peels them back allowing  them to harmonise and float.                                                                

Look beyond, then look again and find the mesmerising magic.