Another Friday, another exhibition, this time Paul Nash at Tate Britain . It was great to see so much of his work altogether and see the progression of ideas along with repeated imagery. I'm so used to paying homage to favourite individual paintings , like the 'Winter Sea' (above) I visit every time I'm in
York and
'The Shore' (below) in Leeds so it was interesting to see them in context.
The 'Dymchurch' painting drawings and prints that informed my ' Bexhill Breakwaters' quilt continue to inspire
It was great to see some of his lesser- known photographs - I've got a large number of shots of
breakwaters and sea defenses too!
I'm not usually a big fan of surreal works but seeing how he used scaled up objects that had meaning for him set against the landscape has given me ideas of how I might combine my '
small treasure' drawings with seascapes
I've seen this painting ' A nest of stones' recently at Margate - it was good to see it in different company. It features in the frontispiece of my favourite art book '
The Experience of Landscape' . I've had it for over 20 years but still find new things to enjoy among the combination of artworks and poetry.
My journey from the Tate to City lit by bus was fun , on the top deck of a double -decker going via the Houses of Parliament and Trafalgar Square, some interesting details at roof level along the ministries on Whitehall .
In the Advanced Painting class we were looking at colour strategies - limited palette ( eg complimentaries, monochromatic, analagous ) and colour inventories. Enough exercises to keep me happy for months, I love
mixing paints.
This Picasso ' 2 women sitting at the bar' is another one of my favourite paintings. , I love the shapes and colours. I once saw it in an exhibition when I was abroad somewhere, paying a fortune for entry so I could spend 20 minutes absorbing it.
Many in the class chose to carry out an inventory of a painting, placing squares of colour like Paul Klee's paintings
I chose instead to try and mix the colours found in this photo of 2 boats
The squares did remind me how useful the 'pixelate, mosaic' filter is in Photoshop as an aid to simplification and identifying the colours
And while I was in Photoshop, I had a go at combining the stack of limpets collected at
Margate overlaid on the canvas I
painted in Weymouth which I'm thinking of using as the basis for further experiments. Definite possibilities
