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RAIN STORM

 

 

 

  

      

50 x 130 cm.  Oil on canvas.  2010 (Sold)

Japanese visual art, particularly woodcuts and painted screens, has been influencing artists in the West since the 19^th century and I am no exception in having fallen under the spell. I lived in Japan for eighteen months. My house included a ‘tatami’ room with soft mat flooring, shoji screens and an alter enclave.  Cycling my children to school in particular heightened my awareness of the uniqueness of the traditional Japanese houses with their very green gardens, beautiful, calm and understated.  The glow of lighting filtered through the delicate opaque shoji screens evoked the sense of a world lit by lanterns. 

 

Many of my paintings reflect an eclectic mix of these influences but none more so perhaps than ‘Rainstorm’ with its monochromatic colour scheme and filtered light glimmering out from the seaboard of its fragile coastline.