Acrylic on canvas.
152 x 200 cm
During my Artist Residency in Italy, I was fortunate to receive painting lessons from an old prominent Italian artist called Alfredo, skilled in both egg tempura painting and sculpture. He was everything you might imagine an Italian art teacher to be; precise, firm, honest, interesting, passionate, enthusiastic and claiming to know less English than he did! He used the word 'sensation' to describe almost everything he felt was required in a successful painting. You had to feel the sensation of the flower, the landscape, the ocean. After a long 4-hour painting session of copying a scene, stroke for stroke, I came back to the studio and needed an abstracted release of my own personal sensations. And thus, the painting before you was born.