Well, what a year 2020 has been, and not always for good reasons. However, there might be some truth in the old cliché that when one door closes another one opens. And so it’s been with my art.
I may not have travelled as much or as far as I had hoped, but this has meant that I’ve done much more walking locally. Sometimes on my own, sometimes with my husband Peter and our border terrier Crumpet.
This has inspired me to depict some local scenes in my paintings. Fields that I barely looked at, I now see with new eyes – swathes of golden rape, crimson poppies and golden barley under the everchanging Norfolk skies. And not forgetting the beautiful Norfolk beaches, quiet at the best of times, but now breathtakingly peaceful and desolate.
I’ve also had time to look at, and be inspired by, the work of other artists – Seago, Sickert, Peploe, Manet and Modigliani. There is so much to be learned by studying the techniques of these great masters. And wasn’t it great to see Grayson Perry’s Art Club which showcased art in all its diverse forms. Grayson highlighted the fact that good art can be many things: a realistic depiction of a subject, a mood made visual, an abstract, a parody. So goodbye 2020, I’ll remember what you’ve given, not what you’ve taken away.
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