About Gordon
The Artist and His Gallery
- Born in the U/K in 1936 I have lived in Australia since 1967.
- I have had an interest in art since early childhood and art has been a life long preoccupation.
- Over the years I have worked in all the mediums but then I started using watercolour on regular basis about 16 years ago.
- In 1995 I become a volunteer tutor for the Hume University of the Third Age (U.3.A.)
- I have been published in the Australian Artist and Artist Palette.
- My work is in collections in Australia and Overseas
Artistic Statement
- There are as many ways of painting as there are artist, and if you are happy with the way you paint then your way is right for you.
- I have my own way of working that has slowly evolved over the years and is continually changing albeit in a minute way.
- You might say my approach as two segments to it one I call the thinking segment the other my creative segment.
- In the thinking segment it works like this.
- First and foremost I am continually seeking out new ways of accomplishing the effects of light on texture, when I find one that works for me I practise it until it is instinctive like driving a car. When that happens it goes into my repertoire where it stays until I need it.
- Field sketches in watercolour are also carried out on a weekly basis honing my observational skills and increasing my knowledge of values and the way light behaves under various conditions.
- So how does this work with creative and intuitive painting?
- For me it works like this, I find a subject that I want to paint and there’s no shortage of them around.
- I pre plan the paintings composition, colour, and value keeping in mind what I want to say about it.
- Then I make a drawing of the major shapes onto the paper and lay in the first washes.
- By then my creative side kicks in, and the painting then starts to speak to me telling me what to do next to reach my goal.