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"The Garden of Dreams"
(From the book "Solar Wind Book
Vol.2")By :
Deborah Susan Jones :
Editor & Contributing writer"The
Garden of Dreams" is a parallel piece to "The KIller Mice". The Killer Mice is a novel by Kit Reed
published by Corgi Books in Great Britain in 1978
illustrated by the artist.
Parallel
pieces were normally created by the artist at the same
time as
experiments, as artist-choices as to which piece would
be supplied to
the publisher.Artistic preference.In
this case, the parallel piece came about because, for
reasons the
artist has never been able to fathom, unlike his studio's
normal and
diligent practice, when it came to fulfilling a secondary
request from
another publisher to supply a transparency of the art, it
could not be
located in the artist's archive, meaning the only way the
request could
be fulfilled, since the original version of the painting
had been sold,
was to re-paint it.It
was an interesting experiment in creating a painting
that was like the
original but then again not actually like the initial
version, an
exercise in how to create it again and yet make a new
artistic
statement.
This
second version (on the right side here) is slightly more
colour
saturated and intense and tree markings and background
elements have
been enhanced and the very foreground had more detail in
it.The two
versions are reproduced in Volume 2 of the SOLAR WIND
Book here
together with a drawing also done at the time, all
experiments in "how best to do things"!Deborah Susan Jones
