The sketch book I made last year is more relevant now in this work. It is only simple imagery from my head, unlike life studies I continue with to keep my hand and eye involved in the world around. The object itself has more presence. The photos are things around the house today I took walking back from the studio. I wish my camera could capture the colour of the trees in the hills right now; orange leaves with kitchen tree structures and a purple forect floor patched about also with litchen light green skeletel trees dotten amongst. must try to use it in paint.
roses across the wall and windows and doors
fig tree cuts through the sky
sky drama over landscape form
textures and surfaces feeding life
mouse hole
old dead apple tree meets the earth
lace like litchen
lace, rose and wall
house
green man 2007
small pot
made sketch book, tied with string
sketch book spontaneous
street scene
desperate to create contrived
Lucy Toop sketch book and ideas
large expressive painting outburst end of winter