Thursday 6 May 2010

Silence

Silence


This painting, as until yesterday and large seascape that had kicked around for sometime doing nothing but taking up space. Every time I saw it I took a bigger and bigger dislike to it, so yesterday I converted it to this abstract.


I was feeling good within, it was nice to be pain free, and I felt full of bright colours and joy. I just wanted to let this bubble forth onto the canvas. I had not real plan, which is unusual for me. I normally have an internal picture fighting to break free. What I was sure of as the colours, the colours I see al around. New leaves popping onto the branches, yellows of daffodils and primroses abound. While in my garden, there are the bright reds of a rhododendron and azalea.

So with these colours and no others, and my knives and fingers I attacked. The original painting was landscape, so this one was going to be portrait. I do not ever remember painting a portrait abstract this size. I did paint it in landscape but all the time trying to see it in portrait.

When it as finished I showed it to a fellow artist see it in landscape. The comment was positive, so now I had a problem. I let two friends se it. They did not like it at all. When I turned it round to portrait they began to look again, and I think maybe they saw something else.

Is it finished? I am not at all sure. Will I leave it? Or will it go the way of the seascape?

The most important thing for me was this. If I had just had a little bit of silence yesterday would have been a marvellous day.

I am not at all sure about the title of this I may in fact leave it without a name and let it say nothing.

I hope those who read this find ALL they seek this day.



This blog is linked to my other where I talk about silence:-  The Desire For Silence

9 comments:

  1. It's a FLOWER-BIGBANG to me; means that I like it expressionally, Ralph! I would let it go as it is; if you want a corrected version, paint it new; because sometimes we destroy something, we wanted to improve it...

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  2. C'est une véritable explosion de couleurs...
    J'aime cette intrusion de jaune.
    A bientôt,

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  3. Well, I agree about the BIGBANG flower....lovely colours, and you've put a lot of work into it.

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  4. A veritable explosion of colors indeed, as Martine said. I like this, Ralph. I think I'd call it profusion with just such a bursting forth impression.

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  5. Ralph, just as long as you enjoyed the journey, (and I think you did) that's the important thing. It looks exciting not at all silent. Just my 2 cents.!

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  6. Ralph, I like the painting!
    Nora

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  7. So glad you had a day without pain, Ralph. When I look at this painting I see your joy. By naming it silence, you are naming for something you wanted. Why not name it so it reminds you of the positive part of the day? "Joy" That way when you look at it you may forget it was a day without silence.

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  8. Now that is a thought Bonnie so I have a few suggestions now and I am confues LOL

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  9. I love this painting. I love the colours and I love how I felt when I saw it...

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