Notes

A couple of summers ago I spent a week with my partner at a yoga retreat in the Catalan countryside. I didn't do yoga - when everyone got up at dawn to practice, a took myself off into the surrounding area with some paint, and mixed a palette of colors based on what I saw around me. Then I painted a grid of those colors, for future use, I didn't know what or when. Finally the future arrived.

For this painting, I took the first of those palettes, that I made sitting in a forest, and then bleached the colors out so they're really gentle and quiet.

I didn't want to arrange them in a way that suggested movement, or anything suggestive of figurarive forms. So I used a simple grid of lines, and arranged the colors more or less randomly around it, as they react differently depending on which ones they're next to.

I hope the resulting effect is joyful and calming :)

I much prefer it in real life, not through a lense or on a screen, but hopefully you get the idea.