A happy new year to you all.
I always love new year’s day (much more than new year’s eve) – so full of promise and potential, though for the most part, we need to create these for ourselves.
It’s a beautiful day here in NI. We’re still under a pretty restrictive lockdown, but i think most of us feel hopeful about what 2021 can bring.
So far today I’ve taken down my Christmas tree and put it in the garden where it will hopefully grow.
I’m planning to reclaim my attic (where i have my studio) from the cardboard box graveyard that it has become. And then I’m going to get stuck into my new painting.
I started it yesterday though I’ve been thinking about it for months.
I love painting water and recently been focusing on how light filters through underwater. I’ve been thinking about forests of sea kelp. And that started me thinking about kelpies- the Scottish water horses that lure their victims down to the deep. So my latest painting, The Kelpies, is a departure for me from purely literal realism to toy with other themes and genres.
I’m finding it challenging, with lots more detail and development to come. And I’m not sure that it will go where i want it to. But let’s step bravely into new styles, approaches, perspectives and experiences as we step into 2021.
May it be a better one for us all xx
Julie Wilson Art 