It started with a tiny picture by John Piper, cut out from some art magazine or other, years ago -
The "little picture" is a screenprint: "Near Newcastle Emlyn, Cardigan", 1968. The Tate has
a copy; you can make an appointment to go see it.
I thought it would be fun to extend the colours and marks beyond its edges, a process that hadn't appealed to me before I started playing with pastels (and with painting). This is how it's evolving - I leave the book open on the work surface and add a little bit whenever I pass it -
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| Adding blocks of colour - paint, tissue collage, ink |
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| Pastel marks |
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| Cutting through several pages to move the starting image further along in the book |
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| Another page: revelatory cut-outs, more blocks of colour |
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| The third page, very much in progress |
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| The little landscape can be reached by travelling through the pages |
The marks I'm making feel somewhat "thoughtless" so I'm researching
Piper and his
landscapes, and keeping an eye out for other types of marks -
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| Work in progess, Finsbury Park tube station |
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