I’ve started my canvases.

Throughout this process I’ve always believed it would be a useful exercise to get some of my thoughts on canvas. I now have around a dozen square canvases ranging from 300mm x300mm to 1000mm x 1000mm, and the first has been “launched” by the impact of acrylic paint on its surface. This is a small canvas and I am delighted to see it happening at last. It is entitled “Chromodoris Annae” and takes its colours and design features from a nudibranch or sea-slug recently photographed in “National Geographic”.

Here’s my thought process. I am calling this series of paintings “Nature’s Palette”. Why? Because I am drawing my inspiration from some of the flora and fauna that this good earth provides naturally. This involves, colour, texture and form taken from insects, fish, crustaceans, animals, birds, flowers and plants, all shining examples of what could not (in my opinion) happen purely at random.

As an artist, when I look at some of our natural phenomena I somehow just “know” that a Supreme Designer’s mind is behind their creation. It’s simply not good enough to say that their appearance happened by chance, and, by committing them to canvas, I believe I will be at least making my view clear, that through the very appreciation we have for beautiful things – art, music, nature – we can be sure that there is a purpose behind it all!

By using the vivid colours, remarkable textures and intricate forms to be found everywhere on earth (and probably beyond), I am “borrowing” a palette of such wealth and power that I feel almost as if I am cheating by calling the canvases my own work. You will see no actual creatures or botanical specimens, but merely my abstract “translation” using the palette. I am concentrating my studies on a wide variety of life form, and these twelve pictures will, I hope, get it out of my system and into the open.

I will be publishing a photo of each painting as they are completed.

Anyone reading this – please send me if you wish any photographic examples (jpegs) of the kind of thing you may associate with nature’s design – all grist to the mill! Please send to ososki@btinternet.com