CANNOCK CHASE, STAFFORDSHIRE

Your compositions always attract me David.

I'm always attracted to your loose and unpretentious approach David, and the way that you frequently flatten the foreground perspective. I do wish you'd offer more than just "Acrylic" however; it seems almost dismissive, and I'd truly like to know more.

Really like you style and the colours David.

Love the composition!

Well John as the great architect Meis Van De Rohe said"less is more". I progress my artistic abilities to decrease detail ,reality and academic rules of form, perspective and natural colour theory to a level of sensory immediate impressionism, ,that is" what i feel ,not what i see" and feel not the need to "copy" , i am not a camera, which could do this mechanically. . Let the paint make its own journey , let it run into itself, let it create shapes that can suggest forms in the mind, Dry brush, scrape out ,glaze and abstract images arrive. i find this more satisfying than attempting to copy accurately what is front of me, (this does not mean i have arrived at this approach without traditional interpretation look on my site ,for instance Patshupatinath Nepal ,very photographic, but not ,i feel the arrival point for an artist . There is so much more to explore, Abstraction in my mind is an opening for the creative mind to see within ,to express the drama and the emotions felt. its an exciting journey to cross the bridge from reality to abstraction, but reality i think should be seen but sometimes not entirely believed!I am not a professional artist , but if you feel you need more insight study the work of ..John Blockley..Ben Nicholson...John Piper...Paul Nash ..Ian Elliot ,so many painters who crossed that bridge and"felt freedom". Sorry about , the lecture my friend,but you did ask! The June issue of the Artist magazine has an editors choice of one my paintings describing my technique. Keep painting ,look within,invent new rules AND ENJOY THE JOURNEY...Dave Wilkes

Yes I did ask David, and thanks for the response. It's just that jpegs are such a grossly inadequate way to look at artwork. And now I see—as I had suspected—that we have similar views; for me it's about being IN the landscape, not a picture OF the landscape (in the photographic sense).