This new painting I’m sharing with you is a response to my countryside walking, cycling and memories of fishing by the railway. The painting brings together various colours, marks, views and memorial responses to following along the railway tracks, seeing graffiti and scratched marks on railway bridges and walls, cycling along disused and beside old rail trackways. It maps a journey taken, both real and memorial, with fading images, marks and colours seen and experienced.
The painting is also a homage to hanging about with friends, spending time near the river and railway tracks, travelling in trains, aswell as memories of fishing, maggot bombs, sandwiches, hot summers, swimming in the river and those heady days of childhood.
The painting drew inspiration from one of the bridges along the River Tone in Taunton, which is a bridge over the river and railway line heading into Bathpool. Under the bridge there is a range of graffiti images and lettering, scratched marks, declarations of love to another, jibes, quotes, handprints, images etc., using the range of colours and marks seen that forms this painting.
Below are a few more close up images of this painting called Tracks.
The painting is currently available to purchase at Artfinder (unframed) at:
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