A few paintings were added to the galleries yesterday. Two of the three works uploaded to the “People” gallery – “This House is Empty Now” and “The Other Woman”- are from songs where the main female figures sit on beds staring at the viewer, with landscapes, a portrait, still life objects, and a mysterious life model also making up the scenes. The third painting, “The Ship Song,” is about passion and “making history” as the lovers embrace in an intense manner, as is the case with a Rodin sculpture or a Schiele painting, the latter artist being a particular favourite of mine.
My last blog mentioned our trip to Venice and the “Places” gallery now includes a sunset view of Venice from water level, using a photo taken as we approached the city after an excursion to one of the neighbouring islands in a waterbus. Some artistic licence has been used in this case!
In “Abstracts”, two more interpretations of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s Antarctic Symphony have been uploaded. The music represents the composer’s concern about the effects of global warming on that part of our planet and my series of paintings on this theme tries to convey ideas in colour about the gradual changes creating havoc in Antarctica.