Three paintings. All three are different sizes. On canvas. Oil paintings. One landscape, one portrait and one square. The colour palette consists of mostly blues, greens and browns.Β
1) Looks like a hut. The structure is not made from bricks and mortar. A secret place. Erosion? Wooden structure. Out of focus? Not temporary. There are trees in the foreground. Depicting memory, perhaps. References oriental art in style. There is a heavy, black outline. A variety of brushstrokes. A sense of distance is articulated - whether this is literal or figurative. Imaginative. Dreamlike. Some areas on the canvas have been left blank. Is the building a ruin? There is a sense of temporary structure that has been allowed to decay. Surrounding area appears overgrown, but that may be because of the position we are in (behind the scenery).
2) Part of a house. In the top left hand corner you can see a gabble end. The circle is not enclosed or contained, which references to the symbolic meanings of a circle - that it is not everlasting or continuously ongoing. References time. The incomplete circle improves the composition - it would not balance as well if the circle had been finished off. It gives us somewhere else to go.
3) Headstones? A cemetery? An industrial site? There is a misty quality which gives a sense of horror. Soil. Rusty colours - browns. Rubble? - We question whether the building scene is its interior or exterior. The space has collapsed in some way. The shapes in this painting are more compact than in the other two. Suggests a different time of day because of the lighting.Β
All of the structures have been represented in different ways. The spaces cannot be located - suggestions of memory's and the past.
