Original artwork description:

"The Waiting - study” is an acrylic study painting 30x40cms on 300gm canvas paper. It is set in an off-white card window mount 40.5 x 50.5cms and will fit into a standard frame made for A3 images. The painting is one of several studies made in preparation for a larger canvas painting.
Much of my work is inspired by music and the written word. “The Waiting” takes inspiration from Samuel Beckett’s play “Waiting For Godot”. Becketts’s play is in keeping with the work of some European and American dramatists known as “The Theatre Of The Absurd”. The group believed that the human situation is essentially absurd, devoid of purpose and projected a vision of humanity struggling vainly to find a purpose and to control its fate. The painting also takes inspiration from the poetry of Roy Harper and in particular 1992’s “Waiting For Godot – Part Zed”. Some of Roy Harper’s lyrics are used in the image.
The painting is purposefully equivocal. It is intentionally ambiguous. It doesn’t define an outcome or solution. It is a visual interpretation of hope. The painting, for me, is built around the notion of waiting and expecting an event that may never occur. It is a natural human condition. The formal elements of the work suggest openings, entrances and doorways. The colours and surfaces are blurred and almost ambient. The composition of shapes form ambiguous relationships that question the principles of perceptual organisation.
The work is also inspired by reference to abstract expressionists John Hoyland, Barnett Newman , Robert Motherwell and Mark Rothko,
The painting is shipped in a large reinforced envelope.

Materials used:

Acrylic on 300gm canvas paper

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