Techniques: pouring and painting in

Abstract acrylic painting

Pouring

Literature, music and art ….turn away from the soulless life of the present towards those substances and ideas which give free scope to the non-material strivings of the soul. Kandinsky

In my work, I look for something deeper than just pretty colours, shapes, textures and lines. I need to do the work. It’s how my insides speak….The work is an endless search for meaning…

Here’s a past drawing I did from a photo I took in Lake Louise. I had tried to make one of my abstract acrylic paintings using the drawing as a reference. But, in the end, the drawing was the best out of the two.

« Now it is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated… » John Ruskin

I find they go hand in hand as well. Imagining and planning are part of the beginning steps in my paintings and continue as my works progress. I begin with a plan, and sometimes the work can take me in unexpected directions. But, without thought, the work does not get resolved. And, without action, ideas fester and often fade away in the oubliette section of my sketchbooks….And so, thoughtful labour does bring about a feeling of fulfillment, and a certain degree of happiness in my abstract paintings and in other art forms I practice.