Sometimes drawings don't always turn out the way that you expect. I've been working a lot in oil pastels lately, creating A3 sketches. They mainly focus on shape, colour and form, I like to see them as mindless or in a sense instinctual.
"I pursue no objectives, no tenancy, I have no programme, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes, or variations that lead to mastery. I steer clear of directions. I don't know what I want. I am non-commital, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; i like continual uncertaintly."
Gerhard Richter, 1964
Richter seems to sum up the direction with my drawings. When I began I was completely in his way of thinking, I simply did not know what i wanted. I created large drawings that, to be honest, I was very unsure about. So...I cut them up, into tiny sections. Richter did this himself, in a painting named Abstract Painting 825-II, he took 69 sections of the painting that interested him, and these minatures become works of art in their own right.
What I did was slightly different. I'm still very much interested in aspects of landscape, so when I cut up my drawings I noticed that some of the smaller sections bared much likeness to landscapes. I found this intriguing, these landscapes existed only my my mind, they were created unintentionally. I call them Imagined Places, Invented Landscapes.
From these snippets of drawings I began painting a series of oil paintings based of the landscapes within the drawings. I can see parallels between my invented landscapes and mythology, the sense of somewhere in between past and present, reality and fantasy.
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