Sunday, it seems, is not a day of rest for the arts here too, MOG is open until 5pm. After a good rest yesterday Sunday studio began with a couple of tests, one to see if I should create layers using the same colour or integrate grey. I decided against the grey as in this light grey is not grey but purple or reddish in colour. It had to be grey and would have required a matt black tone to mix an appropriate grey that didn’t reflect the amazing light in this studio.

Prashant Panjiar who has a photographic exhibition in gallery 1 gave a wonderful afternoon talk about his photo journalistic career, check him out www.prashantpanjiar.comPrashant Panjiar

Then began 5 hrs of adding layers, some almost glaze in form and others direct from the tube. The final two pieces worked on took time to dry in between layers, so working on one while the other dried payed off. The whole session was quite meditative, slowly responding to where the colour and brush wanted to leave a mark. Some time was spent in silence and other listing the the audio book, The Book of Trespass, which is brilliant (kindly shared with me by Lisa Roberts) https://lisaroberts.fi/

The pieces will be left for a day as the museum is closed tomorrow and I will be heading to https://www.nilaya.com/nature-photos/ for another day bathing in nature.

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