Saturday 13 April 2019

Saturday morning - sunshine

Sean Scully, John Hoyland, Patrick Heron - I woke up thinking about abstract painters, because last night we watched a Sean Scully documentary on BBC iPlayer. It's quite intriguing to see Sean Scully painting - a bit like a 'bull in a china shop', but he's definitely one who knows what he's doing. Or - even better - he doesn't need to think about it, he can just do it. My 'waking-up' thoughts though were about John Hoyland's pictures. We went to see an exhibition in Newport Street Gallery (29 March 2016)



My mind kept wandering, and ended up with imagining images of Patrick Heron. Of the three of them, he's still my personal favourite ...