"Penmaen Bend, 2013" by Emma Cownie
“Penmaen is in the Gower Peninsula, near Swansea. This painting is a ‘peeking out’ view from a car, slipping out of a parking area which serves as a place to park and then walk down a rubbly, sole stabbing, twisting lane, to either the bays, Three Cliffs or Tor. I seek to paint the ‘experience’ of light on colour and form - I am interested in how light invigorates, resonates, generates or dare I say it animates colour and form, rather than simply dressing or caressing it. The light is thus generated in this painting, almost coming from within not from without. This effect is underscored by my use of drawing lines around colours and form, as with the fauvists. I want colour to be the product of being generated, animated by light as if light was the genesis of colour.”
