Coloursoup

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Artwork Details

About the artwork

Painted in May 2010. This painting took several sittings. At the front on the left are two bushes, and these first attracted my attention because a week earlier they were in blossom. I used to pass them regularly as they are visible from the main road to our village. I was planning to paint them, but by the time I got to them the blossom had all dropped. Still I liked the spot, and the simplicity of the composition, and yet the complexity within it so I stayed and made a painting. Actually this painting contains a railway line. Just beyond the ridge of earth is a railway track, and occasionally I would find I would look up and be looking at the carriages of a passing train ! I find this curious, that there is an invisible railway line in this painting, which is really there and yet not show. It says something about perception. Usually I am looking for places which are much more remote, but there was something about this field and earth ridge, that I found alluring. The sky has a violet quality. There are layers of luminescence. It is complex and containing very subtle shifts of hue. There is a warmth, and a silky quality about the light and the sky, and I wanted a name which would reflect this silky warmth in nature, and the word mellifluous seemed right.

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