‘autumn in freefall’ speaks to the stillness of late october afternoon at a trout pond we visit every fall if we can, worked up from a year when there was water in the pond;  most years this trout pond it is completely disappointingly walk across dry, not that i ever felt the need to try to do so.

i had successfully entered this painting into a Colour & Form Society Juried Exhibition  a year ago where it was given an honourable mention, an award a lot of my recent works seems to be getting, so it has provenance, and yet earlier this week, i came across it on one of the shelves, and knew exactly what it needed.     

yes, i pulled a Bonnard, and worked it further which i would not have been able to do if i hadn’t first painted it to where it was before i worked it further.   

 Several other pieces after having left them alone, as often as not upon seeing them again, have been worked further adding to what was already expressed in the initial working up of the idea. i suppose that any and all changes might be easily seen if i posted both the done painting and the worked further result, sort of an before and after. 

it actually makes telling anyone who likes the work into a convoluted non ending ongoing experience while avoiding any thoughts that the work had not been finished initially in need of delicate distinguishing between what was done and what was done to further the idea to where it stands today. i think this must be pretty normal for anyone who creates anything and don’t consider it a big deal or anything beyond being grateful to be able to see further into the work and then follow it up with being able to express that ‘furtherness’.

‘Autumn in freefall”

34″ x 22″

watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel  

2400.