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Chivay, Colca Valley, oil on card, 21 x 17.3 cm - available
Chivay, a tree, oil on card, 23.5 x 21 cm sidcarded
Chivay, a road, oil on card, 21 x 19.2 cm - diiscarded
These are the final three pictures from Chivay, an excellent place to work and a highly agreeable town to stay in. But I would recommend that travellers there bring a book to read as the evenings can be rather quiet.
These three are all painted more thickly than the previous set.
In the six weeks I worked I had enough time to make quite a considerable advance- to work on larger pieces and more confidently. Indeed, six weeks is probably as long as one can work on a daily basis without fatigue. You'd need a week off and a change of location to some utterly different landscape to maintain freshness.
But these pictures remain simple in both a technical and conceptual sense.
Are they rather old-fashioned? Should an artist be attempting to engage more with the contemporary world? Anyway, do such questions matter if you enjoy what you do?
Well, I hope to exhibit some of them here and in Scotland later in the year and will perhaps see if such questions are broached.
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