After not picking up a brush since my Art A Level days, retirement has given me the opportunity to resurrect my love of painting. I get a huge sense of enjoyment from creating in the post-impressionism style using broad strokes and raw colours. Most of my works are portraits but I also enjoy painting churches and I have been known to clear my basement, cover the whole floor with decorator’s plastic sheets, put down a canvas and get to work on a Jackson Pollock. More recently I’ve started experimenting with the Cubist style and, I must admit, Alberto Giacometti fascinates me.
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Self portrait
Self portrait, acrylic on canvas board, 28cm x 36cm
Paul
Acrylic on box canvas, 28cm x 36cm
Pete
Pete, acrylic on stretch canvas, 41.5cm x 59cm
Self portait
I first tried this using a mirror, cos I had read that only proper self portraits where done live from a mirror.. so I tried, see below. To me it is a more dynamic sketch and I like the composition.. just a shame the likeness didn’t work out. So I asked a friend, Louna, to take my photo so I could have another go from that.
Re-coloured water colour
Martha Graham. A painting I did 30 something years ago had faded, so I re-coloured it. It was in fact gouache, water colour being too difficult for me. I also think I was a better painter then.
