Strata / Reflection and The way

These are a couple of my favourite paintings.  Monochromatic paintings that made me change my mind about the colour burnt sienna - a colour I had decided was one of my least favourites. No longer!  They’re a bit of a quirky shape at 17cm x 38cm, and I think that’s part of the fun.  The began as an exploration of what burnt sienna can do, the colours you can make by mixing it with black and white, using a variety of different mark making tools and just playing with the paint.  After the initial layers, I worked on them individually.  Developing the shapes I found, while trying to maintain variation in the colours I was mixing.

The way gives me so many unanswered questions, who are they, where are they going, are they escaping - it’s windy and possibly raining and feels like hard work.  Are they walking on clouds, above the clouds?

And the more abstract Strata / Reflection; so called for me because it depends on which way you look at it.  It was painted as Strata but works as a narrow portrait and feels like there is a reflected cave.

What do YOU see in these paintings?  Would you like to have them on your wall to ponder them like I have?