My break from both art and blogging was rather longer than
anticipated after my husband tipped us both off the tandem bike we were riding
in Holland and I broke my arm badly. Recovery is slow, there has been a lot of
nasty pain and I still do not have full movement in the arm. However I have
been back to making art for a while as fortunately I broke my right arm and am
left handed. The break from blogging has been longer both due to feeling poorly
and because I could not co-ordinate my two arms to work together on a keyboard.
Anyway…. I have been working on some paintings for my solo
exhibition in October. I usually have drawings, paintings and prints in my
exhibitions and as the drawings were more or less done and I could not operate
a printing press with the bad arm, getting the painting finished seemed the
best option. I have done four paintings, each 70 x 70 cms, two in blues and two
in more earthy colours all on my current theme (where sea and land meet).
The paintings seemed to work out to my satisfaction
surprisingly quickly. Maybe it has something to do with the acupuncture.
Acupuncture you say, what can that have to do with the quality of a painting.
Well, in desperation I went to see a friend of a friend who is an acupuncturist
as I had been in constant pain for months. We were chatting as he stuck needles
into me (as you do) and he said he once had a patient who wanted to continue
coming even though she was no longer in pain and when he enquired as to why,
she said that she had noticed that since she had been having acupuncture her
painting skills had improved remarkably…. Who knows, anyway, I was pleased that
I did not have to struggle over these paintings, the arm has been more than
enough to deal with.
