Homages
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Homages are indulgent.
They are flights of fancy.
Homages are links between experiences, objects, and admired art and paintings of the past.
They came out of seeing works in galleries, reading, or simply stumbling across items and ideas. In some way they act as a reminder of the importance of meaning and metaphor in art. Not all art, but certainly much art. It might not seem so, but Homages are also a testing ground for new colours and painterly experiments. They give me time to think, away from the urgency of the life room or the panic of plein air.
The first, Homage No.1 (o Durer), came about after seeing the wonderful Adam and Even (1507) at the Prado. Thoughts of expulsion, forbidden fruit and, later, an Alessi bird whistle (that no longer made a sound) combined to form this first flight of fancy.