lockdown and beyond my strategy for coping!
Being creative through art can be life changing! Lockdown and beyond my strategy. With all that is happening in the world right now, having a creative skill has been keeping me sane. OK, so some days I just can’t bring myself to do anything useful. On other days, I put on some lovely music, and am happy as Larry, working away in the studio. I have projects that have lain dormant for so long. The hours just wizz past, and work gets finished. It’s only later, on seeing the world news, that my energy vanishes once again.
Here is one of those projects, a studio oil painting of the medieval village of Aylesford. It is on the Medway in mid Kent, with it’s stone bridge. There are cottages and a church on the hill beyond. I made a film whilst painting this, start to finish, click on this photo, or see below!
My first time painting out, after the lockdown was very strange. I was nervous and a little scared. Rather like when going to paint out doors for the very first time. Were passers by keping their distance? What might they say? It was rather surreal.
This painting of a distant view towards Minster and the cliffs, at top above, were my first ‘plein air’ paintings since March. Here is my outdoor studio set up, beside the river Stour at Grove Ferry. Here I painted the picture below. All these and more can be seen here, click on the photos.
