Modernist, expressionistic oil paintings by Linda Weir
about colour, pattern,form, movement, texture,and all that jazz , all tangled up with memory and imagination
Modernist, expressionistic oil paintings
about colour, pattern, form, movement, texture and all that jazz – all tangled up with memory and imagination.
Expression
Like Hans Hoffman and many modern artists, I work towards poetic expression. I try to catch the fleeting changes in light and mood, which are dramatic and make it somehow concrete.
Reflection
Cornwall encourages reflection, water all around – an icon for the subconscious. People here are trying to understand and seeking time and space amongst the Cornish.
The Sea
Life is dominated by the sea whose tides shift ceaselessly forwards, governed by the moon, marking the seasons. One is aware of the stars, clear and bright in the black skies.
St Ives is a small community of seagoing tradition, harbour and town, school and churches, artists and beach life with a lot of building, craft and arts professionals, hotels and history
Artists are fellow workers. Fishing boats and fishermen, the harbour wall and the beautiful hillsides surrounding St Ives Bay, Godrevy lighthouse, the Steeple, Rosewall and Constabba Hill and horses at Halsetown.
Relationship with place is in its sight, sound, smell, texture and taste, these senses anchor it in the body – a zip file of a lifetime can be invoked by the call of a gull or the smell of seaweed.
The images and colours in the paintings are about constant change and movements, springtime, sunsets and winter transformations observed in fleeting time. They are from life and this is why they are sometimes called ‘naive’, a rush to capture the moving changes.
I am like a fisherman in this, to race the tide, to catch the boats before they leave, the sun before it sinks beyond Carnstabba Hill and the fishermen go out or come in. Mostly a la prima, impasto, layered and tonal colours. I love the oil paint and the improbability of the images caught up in wheels of paint. They are alive forever in the paint and continue to live and change with the changing perception of the viewer.
Painting is ‘the creation of the self and the self-creating’ I assemble hope and possibility, newness out of vivid everyday life. My older work is studio based from Manchester, Lincolnshire and Cornwall. The imagery of music and literature play a big part in the iconography of my work. Landscape allusions in the work of Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Alan Ginsberg, Walt Whitman and Dylan Thomas, Leonard Cohen and Alan Watts.
