Colour library

I vividly remember spending a day on the Yorkshire Moors whilst at art college, painting and a bit of sleeping on a rock, in the sunshine. My tutor declared me a ‘colourist’ painter when I returned with some work for the evening group crit. In a sense I still am, undeniably colour is a central focus in my work. I see colours dialled up, super saturated, violet and pinks hidden in the dark soil, bright blue fields of cabbages, orange pumpkins and acid yellow daffs, pale pink field stubble, fleshy peach dry grass.

Conversely I also pay attention to those changes in weather that flatten colour, especially a frost or fog that removes almost all hue.

Perhaps then, an interest in how the same places can seem so very different depending on the light and weather and an attempt to bring those colours into my paintings…