lily on the shadow side

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. I am now painting with watercolours directly onto gessoed birch panels. Working on gessoed panels isn’t much fun; it is akin to painting on a plastic counter top with every stroke beading up, streaking, smearing, and misbehaving like so much spilt coloured water. But I am dazzled by the new textures, the strength, and the immediacy and directness that result. on those occasions I need to work the painting further, to make my own acrylics by adding acrylic gel medium to the watercolours; to ‘secure’ the watercolour I lightly apply two coats of spray fixative, and once dry, I seal it permanently against the elements by applying two coats of varnish just as one would apply to any oil or acrylic painting. I also paint around the edges of my paintings and as such they can be hung without a frame or floated in a float frame. . Water being transparent, always different, lets us explore/express it through the very reflections that outline it is movement, try to confine it

Where it's been: impressionist landscapes capturing the dazzle of light move toward the effect of abstraction and exudes a textural quality, but still embody the veracity of realism,