Notes
Topic: Practice
Thinking about what counts as reality, where fiction and memory meet observation.
Words to accompany paintings in A Certain Day
“All the possibilities - oh, at last I know. These are mere notions - proven to be so when you start painting again.”
Collected Agnes Martin words
A looked-at landscape is already a memory.
John Wells on abstraction
Collecting notebook thoughts about landscape and painting
Guided by emotion
Chucking words at an artist statement that just won't stand still.
On trying to paint after a visit to St. Just.
Current thoughts on why some landscapes work as starting points.