Thursday 20 September 2012

Twenty by Twenty

Dawn 20x20cm acrylic on canvas

Sunrise 20x20cm acrylic on canvas

Night Lights 20x20cm acrylic on canvas

These paintings were inspired by my morning walks.  Yes I am one of those crazy people that wake up at 5am to go walking every morning.  I enjoy it.  I love the cool air and the quiet.  But I especially love watching the sky change from an inky black to the pastels of the pre-dawn.

Curiously enough, these paintings began with the intention of being aerial landscapes.  They are the result of several thought patterns that connected one afternoon.  After attending a judges walk through of the Hedland Art Awards, I realised that a number of indigenous artworks were created by painting bright colours on a black background.  In my work I always paint on white, and sometimes even paint an extra three coats of white on a pre-primed surface.  

I had also been inspired by an aerial painting of tyre tracks in the desert which is both lively and lucid.  It reminded me of the Landgate website I found last year when I was researching maps of Port Hedland.  I had intended combining the two to create a painting from the computer, but I also had the images in my mind of my morning walks.  I guess they won.  What I find kind of ironic is that I had painted these images fourteen years earlier, horizon lines, seascapes, sunrises.

I am yet to return to the computer to paint, and who knows, maybe I won't.  I guess I will wait for the inspiration to hit me again.


https://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/bmvf/app/mapviewer/#  Zoom in over the flood plains for a bit of excitement.

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