Grasses by moonlight

Gallery Series I/17

Please read the preface to Gallery Series I/15 (https://lagill6.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/gallery-series-i15/) to more fully understand the image below:

Gallery Series I/17

Arboreal pattern

 

 

Abstract 288 ‘Festive Season’

SEASON’S  GREETINGS  to all, and especially to regular viewers of this site.  I greatly appreciate your visits and hope you continue to enjoy what you find here.  I wish you good health, happiness and peace in our time.

Midwinter Night’s Dream

 

In the dark days of winter how soothing it is to recall the warm balmy days of summer!

Abstract 286

The Viola Player

Wave patterns

 

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Gallery Series I/16

Please read the preface to Gallery Series I/15 (https://lagill6.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/gallery-series-i15/) to more fully understand the image below:

 

Gallery Series I/16

The beauty of pebbles

Emerging from the depths

Lifting the veil

Gallery Series I/15

The next few images in Gallery Series I have been ‘inspired’ by the works of Barnett Newman.  Like Clyfford Still, Newman was a colour field painter and, like Still, he too worked on very large canvasses.  His paintings are characterized by flat fields of a single colour broken by isolated, thin (and usually) vertical stripes known as ‘Newman’s ‘zips’.

Newman was a deeply spiritual man and hoped to draw the viewer into his paintings to experience his search of  ‘the sublime’.  For him, the stripes represented ‘streaks of light’  – flashes of cosmic light.  The art critic Robert Cumming encourages viewers to imagine drawing aside the blocks of colour to slowly reveal an expanding opening into an infinite space.

I have had these thoughts in mind when creating this group of images, although I have interpreted the concept quite freely and with decidedly more modest ambitions!

As with the earlier images, I would like you, the viewer, to visualise each image as a softly lit large scale canvas (say, 14 feet x 8 feet) on a white gallery wall and imagine quietly contemplating the abstract pattern. Attention should focus on a feeling response rather than a rational analysis.  The use of the magnifier to enlarge the image may be helpful.

Gallery Series I/15

Dune grass (Walberswick)

 

Abstract 282