For a painter "between work" means I don't know what I'm going to do next - or I have several ideas going around in my head but can't seem to settle on one. So I dabble here and there, trying this or that, but not ready to commit. My dear friend Terry and I call it "dusting."
It
still worries me at times, not always but there are times when I feel certain
I’ve lost my way. But after all these
years of making art, I know it’s all part of the process. It just is.
And so I continue playing with nonrepresentational, and at the same time experimenting with seascape and or boatyard abstracts. Do you see a boat or a vase in the one above. I see a boat. I’m working in sketchbooks, small ones, large ones, some concertinas, along with a few boards. I’m also going through my photo files and taking lots more photographs.
Every morning Ive been doing a 5-minute collage. For those I have a pile of scrap papers on my desk and my challenge is
to use them and anything else that is within reach. This is the one I did this morning. I post them on Instagram pretty regularly.
I trust that one of these days my muse will finally show up and point out something good in the dust and I will and suddenly have a new series is underway.
Until
then, I will keep showing up and keep doing the work.
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