oil on linen
1020 X 900mm (40" X 35")
Paul Hutchinson
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This is another painting that I really struggled with and never felt was properly resolved. Very much a case of art reflecting life I suppose... Music has always been the other great passion in my life. I have played the classical guitar (rather badly, but enthusiastically), for quite a few years and I am particularlly drawn to the early music repertoire, a lot of which has been transcribed from original lute music for guitar. Whenever I get depressed about my painting it is to music I turn. I had been having a growing sense of dissatisfaction with my painting around this time. I felt I was spending weeks and months labouring paintings to within an inch of their life. I was struggling to justify all that intense work. The end results gave me no satisfaction and didn't seem to resonate with anyone else either. It had all become simply a personal and private struggle, and a very masochistic one at that. This is one of the last larger paintings I would do for a number of years. It seems significant to me that I represent myself as a musician rather than a painter. I enjoyed the irony in the sheet music title - Lesson For Two Lutes, and that seemed like a good title for the painting. |
| 1974 - 1983 | 1984 - 1993 | 1994 - 2003 | 2004 - 2014 |
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