My painting subjects have seemed to split a little in the past couple months. I've noticed that some seem to be more typically landscape-ish in their composition while others are more, umm, meditative and without reference to their specific place. I have to say that I am a little worried that the landscape-ish ones might be considered too typical. Yet with the meditative ones, I don't want to end up being 'the girl who paints those shadows.' I've decided to explore both of these paths for a bit to really consider each.
From Waterloo Bridge, 4' x 5'
The more traditional landscapes still aren't totally traditional, and I am still questioning the substantialness of objects and space, but what I like about them is the way I'm depicting space. I am thinking of the space more like screens - like the sets in a play that go in front of one another. Perspective is still a part of it, but the painting is not dependent on it as the only means to allow the viewer to understand or explore the work.
From the Avon River, 4' x 4.5'
These others are paintings of non-places. Not to say that they don't exist, but they are of the places we glance at on our way to somewhere else. I don't want to use the term banal to describe them because A; that is such an art buzz word, and B; banal is a word that derives its definition from a conventional mindset out of a desire place judgement classifications on things and places unnecessarily. I simply refuse to incorporate this way of thinking. But the places I paint might be easy to overlook. I like that they infer a journey perhaps, or a moment of epiphany or maybe they are just a place where one stood and spaced out.
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