Watery Landscapes
I have been experimenting with different ways of arriving at the imagery for paintings, including collage, working from my imagination and taking inspiration from Old Masters. These recent works are all landscapes with some kind of water - either a pond, lake or river. The composition for 'Immersion' came from a collage and which developed through imagination with a nod to the landscape in the background of Piero della Francesca's 'Baptism of Christ'. 'Claudian Landscape' was a progression from 'Landscape with Narcissus and Echo', which I started by copying before making my own painting.