2012 - 2014

In the first in the series, New Ipswich Quay, I have freed up the drips of oils and spirit to emulate the liquidity of water in the atmosphere. The next painting in the series, Old Ipswich Quay, uses large swirling brushstrokes, obscuring the sky, water and foreground to portray the large, spiritual essence of the blinding afternoon summer light. The third painting in the series Ipswich Quay - Old and New  is a non-traditional, close up, composition of a docklands scene, where there is little space around the subject for the picture to breathe and escape out from.  Instead, we are confronted with the surface of the painting and its raw colour. The boats’ masts appear to be entwined in old and new dockland buildings and geometric lines and shapes predominate. This claustrophobic viewpoint takes us away from an idealistic scene and a pre-conceived notion of what a picture should be, reverting back to a naïve perspective, where viewpoints, background and foreground can merge and objects become obtuse. The picture takes us back into the sensation of the moment. In the fourth painting, called Ipswich Marina- It Looks Like Rain, I have gone back to the dripping style I used in the first painting, New Ipswich Quay, only this time the painting took me little time to execute.