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I am writing this thank you from the heart to all those of you who have helped, commented and encouraged my painting.
I'd painted mostly dogs for family and friends for over 20 years but never seriously then 7 years ago I became bedridden for 9 months and left disabled with many boring hours on my hands. Life as I knew it had gone and I needed a distraction so I started painting again. Then about 3 years ago I found POL. The support, advice and friendliness on here was amazing leading me this year to try a few competitions. I just can't believe how it's gone. I got a runner up prize, a Highly commended at Patchings, my own small exhibition, an offer to hang my paintings and in the last 3 days have had 2 paintings accepted; one for second round judging in London and one for exhibition in London. I am completely overawed; things like this just don't happen to me and I'd never have even thought of trying if it hadn't been for all of you on here. You are amazing. You've given me confidence and ideas I would never have even considered. Thank you all so much.
If I don't ever do another painting I will never forget this year.
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Not a lot, I see a pic and think it may make a painting.Who? Turner, through the Impressionists, Cubists, and Fauvist, to the present day.I like to fool around with pics and invent paintings by merging several photos, master's paintings and my own colour scemes into totally made up scenes. Nothing that I ever put up is realistic or topographicaly correct. Why I don't know, it is the way I express my visual take on the world.bestMick
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What inspires? Well, it could be anything, but mostly it's landscape. And *being* in the landscape. I started spending time walking our local hills a couple of years ago (it helped that the children were at preschool/school and I wasn't working). I got to know the local footpaths pretty well, and subjects began to suggest themelves - so then I began to seek them out, along with places to sit.
Winter came, so I resorted to still life. I looked around the house. I painted wine (bottle + glass), flowers (heck, someone gives me flowers, I'm gonna paint 'em) and LEGO figures, among other things.
Full time work materialised, so now more of my landscapes are squished into the evenings and reliant upon photographs I've already taken. Ho hum. And it's nearly winter again.
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I'm a bit of an old romantic (well, somebody has to be, Don't they?).
Sunrises, sunsets, sunrays shining through treetops, sea, rivers, people , boats,flowers. To name but a few.
I also find the time of year inspiring, painting mainly in the spring and summer. I find that I don't paint much in the winter.
As for painters who inspire me? Too many to mention here, but I'm more interested in the process of the painting rather than the painting itself.
< A thing of beauty is a joy forever> John Keats
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A walk round my garden usually does it for me, but it is hard to say what sparks the inspiration. One flower/leaf/berry can look very much like the next flower/leaf/berry, but one inspires and one does not. Perhaps it is how the light catches it, I don't know, but thankfully there is usually something.