Saturday morning. Just sitting quietly in the roof space, listening to rain fall on the window panes.
I love the rain, the simple sound of water, where my mind can gently meander and visualise the world outside and around me. Images never to be painted directly, but certain to find a place somewhere within the simplified, stripped-down watercolours for my new series in my French studio.
Complexity and simplicity, areas of busyness and areas of calm. A continuing and important philosophy/psychology for my work, where the minds-eye naturally wants to move away from a busy image after a while to rest. Rather than move outside of the image entirely, there is space within the image, to find that subconcious calm we all ultimately seek. This all helps to balance and harmonise the work, ultimately giving and not taking anything from the mind of and the enjoyment of the viewer.
