It is amazing after all the years of painting fairly competent watercolors how hard it has been for me to make a comfortable leap to acrylic paintings. It might be thought that I am struggling with abstraction more than I thought I would. I never gave much thought to difficulty in representational work I was always pretty good a making up creative subject matter from memory and designing a pleasing and interesting composition but with abstraction, the intellect is being challenged and I am looking for a language and metaphor that works for me. I haven’t found the key yet but as with all things I will keep on painting and soon the painting will appear. As it was so aptly demonstrated by the great abstract expressionist “the painting is the subject.”
