Hear now the curious dream I had last night
“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times . . . The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile”
(Csikszentmihalyi, 1990).
One of the things learned over the years is every artistic work should be better than the previous.
An observation Sir Graham Sydney observed.
A fantastic driving force.
Cecil Collins was one of visionary artists following Blake and Palmer. All his life he followed a lonely path outside the modern movement in art. Yet the significance of his vision is increasingly recognized, especially among young people. And a number of his pictures hang in the Tate Gallery. In 1973, Cecil Collins was commissioned to paint an altarpiece for the Chapel of St Clement in Chichester Cathedral.</p>
Prussian Blue was created by accident in 1704. It has associations with Frankenstein, is a registered medicine and could have played a fundamental role in the origin of life. Link
For the artist it offers a subtle, wide tonal range with a tantalising range of greens, especially with lemon yellow and raw sienna. Although 300 years on there are many more blues, Prussian Blue still has qualities no other blue can quite manage.