Painterly Colours

My husband is an art teacher and manages to find the time to produce some beautiful pieces of work both in paint or pencil and more recently in charcoal.

This large piece he did a couple of years ago just prior to his brain cancer diagnosis. With all that has gone on since then I've never really stopped and studied it closely despite it hanging in our hall and me walking past it everyday.

Today I actually stopped and spent some time looking more closely at it just like I would if I was viewing it in an art gallery. I realised it is actually rather lovely and the colours are put on in a very painterly way (I'm not sure if that is even a word but I am making it one!) The colours seemed to flow into each other and up close there is details I never spotted. It was reminiscent to me of a Turner sky like in his painting of The Fighting Temeraire.  From afar it looks almost three dimensional like a large glowing orb.

I really do need to stop and look at the art works we have more often as it will give me a new appreciation of the beauty we are lucky enough to have around us. It will make me gain a sense of newness in some of these pieces we have had for many years and might even make me slow down in the busy-ness that is our life.