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Landscape directs its own images

Jill Goodman • Sep 09, 2020

Ali Smith's books

I'm re-reading these beautifully written books by Ali Smith - the final one 'Summer' has just been published.

The title of this post is a quote she has placed in the forward of Winter:
'Landscape dirt its own images' Barbara Hepworth.

And the cover images are of course be David Hockney. I haven't seen these but remember watching a documentary with him in it standing by these huge paintings. 

The quote is iso true for my paintings. My earlier works were all landscapes of the hills and fields and lanes in this part of Cornwall. For the last couple of years I've become much more abstract - but the landscape is till there, in the marks, the colours, the shapes that may become hidden as the paint layers are added, and essentially in the final piece.



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