memory and vision, then and now

                      LGO                                                                                                           

Evening Prayer, Brunswick Heads, 5 February, 2017, oil on canvas board, 25 X 20 cm

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Evening Prayer, Brunswick Heads,  26 January, 2017, oil on canvas board, 25 X 20 cm

These two studies date back to the beginning  of the series in 2017 when I had approached the project with all the sensibilities of an Expressionist painter. I like the one at the top very much because it reminds me of where I would still like to go. The other one below it,  is just so so. They are pictures done more with memory and sight than with presence and vision. But that's where I was when I began painting again from Nature five years ago. It had been a long, long time since I had worked from a motif and I had to learn anew how to use my eyes again. I do appreciate them but I see how far away they are from what I am doing today.

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Evening Prayer, Brunswick Heads, 20 September, 2021, oil on canvas board, 30 X 25 cm

                                                                              LVP

Evening Prayer, Brunswick Heads, 20 September, 2021, oil on canvas board, 30 X 25 cm