Original artwork description:

"Masqualero" is an acrylic and mixed media painting on canvas 90cms W x 90cms H. It is part of a series of paintings called ‘The Jazz Series’. This series of paintings has been inspired by listening to the music of Miles Davis, and this particular work is named after a piece written by Wayne Shorter from the album Sorcerer. The song is set over a continuous ‘riff’ which stabilises what becomes a series of improvisations. The painting is made in response to the music and is improvised over a compositional framework. When I make a painting I feel the need to constantly reinvent forms and ideas. I have need to push on to the next idea, I need to keep ideas fresh and immediate. The painting is built in washes of colour and dense layers of impasto paint combined with collaged paper and canvas embellished with fragments of beach sand and crushed shells. I think painting should express all kinds of different things and not be limited. Honesty is important in painting. When I need to change something, I don’t force change on myself, it just happens. I look to the great colourists to reassure my judgments. Artists such a Howard Hodgkin, John Hoyland, Barbara Rae and Gillian Ayres, and I pay respect to African Art typically known as non-Western art or ethnographic art, or, controversially, primitive art, tribal arts. Limited edition A2 prints on photo quality paper are also available. Please see full description.

Materials used:

Acrylic paint, dyes and mixed media on canvas

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