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A big thank you to Anita of the Watercolour Society who called asking whether i was bringing in my entry into the Water Reflections Exhibition this morning, or not. I had it written in the daily calendar, but still, no excuses, totally forgot, forgot i did, did i, and just managed to zip it over to the Etobicoke Civic Centre before the show was fully hung….
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Exhibition: May 29th – June 21, 2018
Etobicoke Civic Centre,
399 The West Mall,

The red forest series grew out of losing myself in the woods. Not losing my directions, well not really, but really becoming so one with the forest so that nothing else mattered. and no, I am not crazy.
Deep in the woods came upon a moment, when it didn’t matter which direction I went next, north south east west didn’t matter, I did not know where I was, exactly. I just stood there, and felt the whole weight of the forest surround me. It was amazing. It was breathing and I was breathing along in time with it.
Part of it, I could feel the trees out there way beyond
those I could see. Amazing and out of control again.
Conscious of the forces involved, driven by ideas I could only grasp bit by bit as it grew with the painting, and looking for totally unexpected results, yet free to control my thoughts and change my perceptions of how to translate this into paint / into the point of new  beginnings / to an aura of ‘coming upon’.
The red forest series was sketched out ‘in’ the forest interior, and to convey that sense of ‘oneness of the
forest’ I felt, I simplified down the number of colours I would use