Arvo Part
25 September 2007
I pick-up a lot of what my friends term useless information, as an avid listener of BBC Radio 4, but Kirsty Young’s castaway this week on Desert Island Discs was the conductor Vladimir Jurowski.
His very agreeable playlist included Arvo Pärt and Tabula Rasa, a composer new to me and one that ‘struck a chord’. So, I was off to iTunes and downloaded the album.
Sometimes things seem to come together and so it is with this music and the way I’ve been thinking about my paintings over the last year or so. Since I have been using alkyd paint, which is allowing a greater freedom of working the medium on the surface, I am finding it much more satisfying to blend areas of tone and colour, rather than draw in every little bit, which is in turn helps to focus the direction of the painting. Well that’s what going on in my head – seeing is believing!
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