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      • Paintings 2018

        In the Summer of 2018 Tate St Ives showed Patrick Heron's work. I also attended an excellent 'Patrick Heron' workshop run by Gareth Edwards at Newlyn Art School where we experimented with Heron's painting techniques. A lot of emphasis was given to Heron's 'pre-cognitive' technique - painting without thinking about it. But I was most taken with his pieces that were clearly inspired by his garden - especially an early painting 'Azalea Garden'. Wanting to capture the essence of our own herbaceous border in spring and summer I borrowed his technique of using vertical marks of colours observed in the garden - but couldn't resist overlaying this with more representational (but out-of-scale) marks inspired by Sisyrinchium, Achillea, Euphorbia and Santolina

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        Spring garden 1

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        Spring garden 2

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        Spring garden 3

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        Summer garden midday

        Poppies and yellow rattle growing in my friend Janie's wildflower meadow. It is hard to avoid the urge to paint representationally when standing in front of the subject

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        Summer garden evening

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