LANDSCAPES AND PAINTING
“Johns oeuvre is full of studios, but what is interesting about his practice as a studio painter is that it periodically becomes necessary for him to make a studio painting as a index of his practice in order to sort it out, to find out what he is doing and why and whether he should go on doing it.� -Fred Orton, Figuring Jasper Johns
Near Orrell Park, 2012
Wellsway (taken from photograph 2006,) 2012
Rock Ferry, 2012
Athens, 2012
Corsham, 2012
“R said when he was living in London that throughout his time in his practice and life he never wanted to go back each stage mattered, this really resonates around F.Ortons passage about Johnsit’s a question of whether you want to go on doing this, at all different stages and that’s a really important decision. It’s also a question of traveling – where do you want to go? And why, how do you want to travel? Do it your own way and the way you want to do it that means something to you, just listen to yourself sometimes. Everyone’s traveling, nice to know L is moving to Cambridge, is it really true that some places in the cities of Britain really having nothing thriving there? In L’s case she’d say yeah…. Sometimes you don’t want to go know places that are not home for you to make you realize that you need to go to bed. …shipwrecked pieces on the beach, new paintings? Though I don’t have a clue where the fuck that is, know what it is from recent shows keeps going on and on and on and on and on and on, shipwrecked was good. Pultney Bridge at night… to Madame joy… in the backstreet… down home, say goodbye, say goodbye…”
Rose Parish r.parish@ymail.com