More Gauguin than Seurat. I am looking for the clear shape in everything and the curious thing is it is nearly always there as it follows the form of the object. Sometimes I find better forms to describe the object from previous brush marks that are already there. This scene is highly simplified but all the elements in the painting are visible in the landscape. I suppose the challenge is to paint a more featureless landscape. Maybe thats for the future. After reviewing this painting a day after this post I realized the painting was finished. The dark brown shape in the foreground centre of the painting has taken on the aspect of a figure with a pointy nose and that is one of the aspects of the landscape I look for. The point is the landscape is full of extraordinary shapes when you spend time looking at it. Echoes of Edward Burra, and thats no bad thing.
An imagined landscape, Northumberland
