2023 has turned out to be year of experimentation. Hardly any intended paintings. Sketchbooks, A4 colour tests, a brief return to Indian sculpture, Posca pens, departing from my favourite palettes, taking risks with as much as I could.
I got a couple of images that interested me in terms of line or colour from the return to the Indian sculptures:
but that didn't last long. I realised that I was just destroying the beauty that had always captivated me and was not really succeeding in taking them anywhere new.
Then there were a couple of paintings that completed some personal work, making that a private trilogy.
Posca pens...
And then some oil painting experiments...
Finally I landed on the Pith sketchbook in a landscape format, that when I worked over both pages became a kind of long narrative, like an Indian storytelling scroll.
