The last of four small paintings that started back in January on Cape Cornwall! It’s a lack of positive productivity that the top slackers would admire!
Cape Cornwall
In another place…
This has been both studio and living space for the past fortnight. It’s good light, a decent workable wall and a reasonably generous desk. In most respects it works well. There is a sizeable drawback…what the comfy chairs don’t reveal is the view, through the open doorway, and from the window in front of the desk. It looks like this sometimes,
and like this at others…
and has many more moods to show you. Yes I have made some paintings, none fully resolved, but my often glacial progress would be even more dilatory if I ‘worked’ here often. Sadly tomorrow I’m off home to my normal environs!
Xmas comes early…
Above another small painting on paper from the Deadly Delicious series back in 2012…yours for an awfully (almost obscenely) cheap price at the Harrington Mill Studios Xmas Sale! (Shameless plug no. 2). Yes your Xmas could come early if you fetched up from 12 noon this Sunday!
And for myself and my wife Xmas really has come early with the news reaching us of the opportunity to spend August 2017 at The Booth in Scalloway! We visited Shetland back in 2014 and found out about the place then. It’s exciting as our recent two weeks at Brisons Veor on Cape Cornwall has to be the UK’s most southerly Artists’ Residency and I’m pretty sure The Booth has to be the most northerly?
The timeframe is good because it gives time for reflections and connections as to what to do whilst in residence. I’ve already researched some of the previous residents and their activities and of course one of the easiest ways to use the opportunity is to reflect the amazing land and sea scape. There’s nothing wrong with that but bringing something new to that is a pretty tricky business…thinking caps will be coming into play!
Our experience in Summer 2014 was quite exceptional…not least the couple days of glorious sunshine. Some more of that would be welcome but over the course of a month, even in summer, we may expect some more rugged activity. As one can see its location gives plenty of opportunity to savour it up close.
Conversation into hushed tones…
So goes the Conversation Series. Some time back I decided these needed pulling back from the wilder shores of the gesture. Of course the background chatter is still there but I’m slowly but surely bringing both speakers into line, a polite exchange rather than the slanging match they had developed. At home the series of Cornish Coast paintings has pulled up just short of Cape Cornwall. They will get going again onwards up towards Geevor and beyond once I’ve had a bit of on the spot top up.
