I'm remembering the chirimoyas, warm oranges, black almond tree trunks and spring water as I get out the folder of paintings and drawings I brought home about a month ago now from the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in Spain. Jeanette Appleton, a friend and textiles artist whose work I have long admired has a studio there. I returned energised by the discovery of an unfamiliar landscape, our painting expeditions, shared conversations, long slow observation and delight in the utter profusion of wild flowers and nightingales. As Jeanette said on several occasions when something important occurred to either one of us; 'There's a piece of work in this'.
I discovered and worked with the Alpujarra earths along road sides, quarries and in the steep valleys. I brought back little samples of each colour in cling film packets. There's a piece of work in there...I'm not quite sure yet what form it might take- but it is related to the samples of earths I'm collecting and working with from the local landscape.
I discovered and worked with the Alpujarra earths along road sides, quarries and in the steep valleys. I brought back little samples of each colour in cling film packets. There's a piece of work in there...I'm not quite sure yet what form it might take- but it is related to the samples of earths I'm collecting and working with from the local landscape.
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