yo!.. knowin when ta stop... innit!
This is the very first painting in the series.
Virgin canvas..
I work with oil paint directly onto the canvas and mixed there upon..
The paint is thinned and spread around without concious thought.
There was no 'Figures In A souk' series at this point..
Just a very happy artist with a few blank canvases and lots of time and oil paint.
What you see here is genesis..
of a series which is still running 8 years later.
The work has continued to develop..
some of the orinial canvases have bee worked upon..
sometimes for the better and sometimes not..
This canvas is as it was on the first day..
It is fresh and full of innocence and hope.
It was a sunny day in the souk..
I hope you will see this and feel as happy as I felt painting it.
Influenced by Rothko, Turner and Rembrandt..
and Richard Parkes Bonnington.
'Figures in a Souk' is a series of experimental oil paintings.
I start out only to paint..
The figures emerge from the canvas as the process develops.
I usually like to paint over existing works of mine..
as that provides a unique starting point and pre-existing texture..
The Souk is always... imagined..
always experimental..
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