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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