Let's get started again - another journey

I haven't painted in ages - I've been busy with exhibition and travel. Lots of sketching, but no thinking about what's next in my art practice. It's the way life goes. You need time to let things percolate, or infuse, whether you're a coffee drinker or you prefer tea.

I did lots of sketching when I was in Allihies at the end of April. And I took tons of photos. The weather was glorious. I was busy then for the first 3 weeks in May. But now, I'm feeling the pull of the peninsula again. I started with words and mind-mapping. It helps me find a focus. I wrote the words in watercolour pencil on paper. And I started. I needed something intuitive and immediate. The ArtGraf tailor shapes are the perfect tool for this stage of the process. I should be doing small thumbnails. But I need to let the energy flow through me. So I work on quarter sheets (about A4). It's not very big, but it's a good start. I don't know where this will go. All I know is that I got completely obsessed with the Syncline visible on the coast just outside Allihies. I didn't even know that word until I saw a wonderful little book about it at the B&B I was staying in. Somehow, in my head, it rhymes with the Songlines of Aboriginal culture. How perfect. It reminds me of the profound sense of a calling that I felt around Uluru, 17 years ago.

For now, I'm just chasing a feeling. Working from zoomed-in photos I took. Let this new journey get started.