« Corollaries from the previous post | Main | Not Quite Painting »
October 14, 2007
The Pinter of Painting
PAUSE
Though, in an interview on the radio, just after he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, I heard Harold declare that he had never intended there to be such long pauses when he famously wrote PAUSE in his plays. He said he since realised that BEAT was more the word he should have used.
Well there you go, another reputation founded on a misunderstanding.
Anyway, beingthatasitmay, I didn’t intend there to be quite such a long pause either and there has indeed been a fair slice of inactivity in the Oil Painting Industry. Not since the beginning of June have the big brushes been slapped in amongst the squishy stuff.
The last pictures to receive some splosh are still on the big wall-easel.
I’ve looked at them on and off for four months, and had neither the time nor the inclination to get stuck in. But looking at the crouching figure this week I thought of an idea where it might go for a while. Then, like a breached dam, stored images from the past months came pouring over into my conscious.
So maybe, just maybe, some paint might find itself upon the palette.
Posted by john at October 14, 2007 04:11 PM