Thursday 1 June 2006

The Original Art Sale

May has been a great month! Whilst there is much to be improved (particularly in the sales department), I've put the bAd website to one side for a while to concentrate on my painting.

I'm finishing off a group of works to enter into The Original Art Sale here in NZ. The work is consistent in terms of 'my style' - vivid, expressionistic colour; semi abstract; somewhat figurative but is also very different as I'm constantly experimenting with colour, form and light.

I'm particularly pleased with the most recent pieces in which I have increasingly let my emotions and thoughts dictate the form to create a much more abstract look than in my earlier work.

I've started to break away from the impulsive, somewhat neurotic, desire to create the 'perfect' painting in which every tiny detail has to be 'accurately' painted. Instead of concentrating on minutiae I'm freeing myself from the self inflicted strait jacket and focusing on the big picture. Hmmmm, art imitating life? I must be growing up, ha ha!


Pictures to follow...