Original artwork description:

An impossible machine that can never be built manufacturing thoughts that can never be understood - or that's what it conjures in my mind.

The painting's dynamic composition, with its sweeping arcs and intersecting lines, suggests the blueprint of an extraordinary apparatus—a hypothetical engine of creativity and introspection. A machine, however, that is paradoxical in its essence.

I think there's a nods to the work of Paul Klee and William Baziotes to be found here as it dawned on me through exploration of their oeuvre that you don't have to stick to oil on canvas to embrace abstraction and there's nothing to stop you letting other drivers guide one as opposed to an adherence to realism which I happily embrace when I'm out landscape painting en plein air.

The use of watercolor adds to this sense of ephemerality and mystery I find as the medium's inherent unpredictability perhaps mirrors the fluid nature of human consciousness, where ideas and emotions blend, shift, and evolve beyond our grasp. The soft washes and bold strokes create a landscape that is both familiar and alien, inviting viewers to lose themselves in contemplation.

Materials used:

Saunders Waterford 140lb cotton paper using professional lightfast Winsor&Newton pigments

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