It's been a little while since I have posted any recent pictures from the beach and of course the reason is that I have been spending more time in the studio working on large pieces. The weather had been in great flux also so at the hint of a cloudy sky I would decide to stay in the studio and forego a beach session. Even six months ago I would not have done this as the beach session has been since the start, a way to connect to the wind and the sea. But lately the studio has cast a spell upon me and I have dug in deep there like a beetle comfortably into soft mud.
Anyway, over this past month I have been to the beach only sporadically and yet the experience is never a disappointment, even if I am ambivalent about some of the work. After all, feelings come and go but the steady effort continues regardless, like small pebbles tracing a path to my front door.
One can see in these studies, all of which were done in the first weeks of November, that the sky was generous, magnanimously so, offering up an intense palette of colour. But alas, it isn't always so bountiful, there are too many nights out there when one's own hopes jumps higher than the clouds and but the colours shut off almost immediately as if on a timer. I resign myself, like the fisherman on the jetty to enjoy the view until the fish begin to bite.
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