Being down the docks in a hot country is like being in a giant open air gallery. It's buzzing with art DNA, sun bleached surfaces, patinas of decay and man made linear marks that are right at home in an abstract painting.
Being down the docks in a hot country is like being in a giant open air gallery. It's buzzing with art DNA, sun bleached surfaces, patinas of decay and man made linear marks that are right at home in an abstract painting.
I found this image in a German art magazine and was captured by the movement in it. The narrative is about a saint on a journey. Sitting here in the studio, a year into the pandemic, I realise that the idea of travelling has become so alien to me. Ironic, considering that Christopher is the patron saint of travellers. I made a promise to myself to go and find this Patinir painting in the flesh when all this Covid is over. What’s happening in the painting is just as interesting. Patinir’s treatment of the …