Paintings For Sale in Pairs and Triplicate.

When you see a new painting released for sale you will often see the paintings are in pairs or triplicates, two or three similar paintings. If you order a painting commission I will often paint two paintings for you to choose your favourite one. This has a lot to do with the way I paint and keeping the paintings free and spontaneous.

Many of the paintings are composed of bold and striking colours in combination to form the overall image. Visitors to the studio are often surprised when they view a painting close up to see just how many different colours are in there. It’s like a composition, a musical, where all the colours form notes which when in viewed in a sympathy perform a concert to the eye of the mind.

The first part of the painting process is very fluid, with an instantaneous, spontaneous and inspiration blast of colour. I will often start two or three paintings at the same time. Each painting similar to the other at the start of the process. This first part of the painting can happen very quickly and covers the whole canvas in a beautiful wash of colour. The first impression of the image creates pulls and pushes of colour as the different colour combinations work together. This first stage is part worked out and part random. I work the colours out to represent areas of the painting and feel how they will work to draw you into the painting. As this undercoat of colour is applied it can have its accidental miracles and strokes of genius as the composition starts to emerge very quickly. It’s a little uncontrolled and righty so. The painting is allowed to flow and develop spontaneously, and this creates a dynamic composition which is free and liberal, expansive and expressive. This part of the painting means that no two paintings can ever be the same even  if I try.

The next part of the process is where I start to add detail and make the paintings work, glow and sparkle by the addition of more colour combinations. Colours are laid onto the paintings with various techniques to pull you into the painting and create a depth of feeling.

Throughout this process the colours start to work together and I can suddenly see a way to take the colour scheme which I had not anticipated. This creates a dilemma. Do I paint the painting in the way I thought would work, or do I follow this new way which the colours in the painting are indicating? Which way do I go and which will work the best?

This is where I use two or three paintings to solve the dilemma and create a freer painting which can go with the flow. I put one painting aside and go with the new colour scheme with the other painting. Then seeing how this new colour combination has worked, I then use this to progress on the second painting. Then this second painting helps me to progress with the first and so on. This way it keeps my mind out of the painting process and it allows the colours to work naturally and harmoniously together in an intuitive way. This is what makes these paintings so special. They have a real depth of feeling and longevity of interest so you can view the time after time and see them differently every time.

It is this technique which works so well in the paintings and in life. A bit of mind and a lot of intuition makes real pleasure work, real experiences and so much fun. It just works, and it works real deep down. But keeping that troublesome mind out the way is a real job in itself.

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