Len Fox Painting Award Project 2016
For a painting in sympathy with the work of Emanuel Phillips Fox
In 1911 Emanuel Phillips Fox painted On the Mediterranean Coast that presently hangs in the Castlemaine Art Museum. I took that as my starting point.
My shortlisted entry is titled On the Mediterranean Coast – One Hundred Years On, 79 x 96 cm, synthetic polymer paint on aluminium composite, 2016
I am not engaged with what we expect to happen, but what in fact happens despite our intentions and anxieties. Hence, while I admit having huge expectations, I set my parameters, point my materials in that direction, and open the gate!
That is my equivalence to the impressionist: that and a love of colour and a want to lick the best bits off the brush.
In this case, having been seduced by On the Mediterranean Coast, E Phillips Fox, 1911 I sought to trust in the digital accoutrements embedded in the contemporary. That is, I allowed the machine to make an impression of the subject and I carried out its direction without quite knowing the outcome. 
