Even though some others were excited over my painting, I was not happy. And then Andrea told me the other night she thought the work was sloppy. So I have been been spending a few more days working on it. I guess it isn’t really sloppy anymore. Did I overdo it?
I have left my painting on the easel for a week, because I was surprised by comments of those close to me (especially my parents) who thought my painting was fantastic. So I will leave it as it is now and do another one in much smaller format.
I am currently working on a piece that is harder than usual. I had forgotten it was this difficult to paint. I have no idea if it is going to work out. The format is 40 x 106 cm, don’t ask me why. It is far from done, a lot of work remains, I think!? Nobody knows.
This little painting is called Donald Trump is coming for dinner tonight. The size of the piece is 12 x 20 cm. Oil on plywood.
… when cutting off somebody’s head. A pastiche on Caravaggio. One of the most recent works for the ongoing show in Båstad. It is small, 12 x 20 cm.
My most recent painting, currently on view at the Library Gallery in Båstad is a landscape painting called The Great Emptiness Between Now and Then and it is 27,2 x 138 cm, a format that is really difficult to view properly on a computer. It is oil and varnish (polyurethane) on plywood.
In preparing for my exhibition at the library gallery in Båstad, I asked myself this question. I even named one of my little pieces this, see below. In every part of what I do, I try to give of my very best, as I did this time too. I made some new works and I tried to present a range of work I am pleased with. The opening was on the first real summer day of the season, the local papers had not done what was expected of them and most people had other things to do, but a group of people came, most of them quite a bit older that Andrea and me. Those who came were enthusiastic, interested and I felt I was able to give them a pleasant experience. But nobody bought anything. “Good luck” some said as they were leaving. It is hard to put food on the table with “good luck”. So what is success? Maybe the main success is what I can learn through all these experiences, these meetings with people, all the lonely times in the studio or elsewhere, when these questions are pressing on?
On Saturday May 6 my show at the Library Gallery in Båstad opens. I am working on some new pieces and preparing everything. This poster was made by Båstad Bjäre Konstförening.
