To talk about art as if my experience was enough,
would not note the knowing well of knowledge and
painting style that you have, and the
twinkle in your eye when disturbed from painting
for a cup of tea.
What sense have I to contact you in the hope of
holding your attention. But in your best work is a
historical trail, which brings home to me my
personal journey when on 17 years old to Israel, as
there are many programs at present with the talk of
the Middle East. I see the lie of the
land, in your work in the Bank Side Gallery, as we
come to land in Tel Aviv, or the honing of land
from the air in France where the inheritance
laws have meant the farming strip is halved with
each generation. Many a plot of the rice field in the
Far East.
What I am trying to say that through the sheer
talent of your landscapes is a conjuring of emotion,
that had we see in the luck of the view you
depict, we would choose to stay and live there.
Some say the Greek Island mountain top should be
a place of marriage.
The work is itself although evocative in pared to a
degree in that the brush marks are ephereal. The
language of the marks are reminiscent of
the works of Paul Klee. Patchwork of hedged fields,
with tiny detail where needed to delineate open
ground, of stone. I cannot delve far
enough to understand watercolour, the layering,
smudging with a rag, and tentative use of sets of
brushes to denote the swathe of land below.
The saturation of colour and the dithering over
what aspect needs to be painted next. From hence
does the work look finished as an amateur,
not the professional painter like yourself. The
compositional depiction of space and devices to
lead the eye around and down the valley,
without hindrance. This is all very difficult for me to
comprehend without considerable preparation and
effort, re-crossing old idea and new.
This I suspect you do in abundance. Your work is
ironed, hemmed, and tied to the chart of not just
hard work but sheer talent.
These techniques you do not just learn in an
average fine art degree, but harbour as an internal
churning of intelligent thought, resolving the
best next step forward and not making the
mistakes acrid, but a learning experience, You must
have that temperament. The eagle eye of the
lower landscape and preying on determination and
diligence, charisma and talent. The workings of the
mind are on canvas, but not all.
There is still learning there, I still smile when I see
your painting.
