Mountain musing

Hurray - sold three of the little box canvases that I have been painting on Sundays; better get going on some more! It is quite a satisfying medium to work with I have to confess after being very sceptical; I have never been 'big' on canvas but at that size they make a really nice tactile 'object' which can be stacked, moved about almost like a sculpture piece. The three are off to Spain which is cool, I like the dissemination of art across the globe; its like how cool it is looking at the traffic on my blog and seeing Russia, America, India; Beverley Hills yesterday. It's like 'Hello Beverley Hills! Great to be with you tonight!!' Of course we then speculated about what majorly famous entertainment business figures could be cruising my stuff and of course from then we went on to cast ourselves in a movie of Bateau-Lavoir days; Stu gets Michael Madsen as long as he's cool with shaving his head and I'd just have to be Renee Zellweger as she's got Sami connections and I love her. Although she might balk at putting weight on again after all the Bridget Jones experience.. she can do the accent though! Twig gets to play herself and thus gain cult following and her own blog spot
Enough already.

Mucking about with ideas from Skye; it was a fabulous time to go; the autumn light and colours are so cool and reminded me of Arran last year when we did our final big walk up Glen Rosa. A truly stunning day and so, so quiet; in the presence of the amazing things that are mountains.

My little mountain haiku from last week:

Rising, majestic -

Sodden, massive, timeless giants

Shrink me to nothing

I love thinking about the forces that created them, the forces that still shape them, and the timelessness of it all. It is truly humbling. I think more than ever this may be something that I think about and use in my painting; the angels inhabit a zone out of time and the mountains and forests are very much their habitat. Spirits, if you like, of the natural world and witnesses to its forces and life. All very pagan and earthy; green men/women and their relationship to their environment...