Inspiration for the Italian Sunset Transposition

Emma

This is the coloured sketch which inspired the painting called Transposition. 

Transposition

This painting is derived from a coloured sketch of a nude, a girl called Emma. The colours are distilled and  simplified into a square creating a meditative image. 

Yellow field

In this painting I am recalling the memory of a field in the Tullybaccart hills, with oil seed rape, broom and gorse all in flower against a very blue sky. It was a sunny day in May.

Cold day at Lethendy

This painting describes the colours seen from my studio window on a cold January day. Blues and cool greys are spread over the  the landscape.

Still life with orange

This is a transposition of the colours found in a still life with fruit and objects. I have added paraffin wax to the surface to make the colours shimmer through.

Colours

Italian Sunset - Venice

This paintings records the colours of Venice at 8pm on the 15th of April 2009. It had been a sunny day and the sky was clear.