Barbara Macfarlane is Joel's partner in art ; a scheme set up by Pallant House Chichester . She and Joel have been working together now for a couple of years and produced a body of work which was exhibited in a show at Pallant House last November.That project started at Cobnor painting seascapes and ended up at W. Dean painting flora which niether Barbara or Joel had ever done before or ever visualised doing !
Barbara will continue to mentor Joel throughout this prodject: We met up a couple of weeks ago to brainstorm ideas for it and decided that they will begin by sending each other A6 postcards (using Khadi Paper ) of simple black line drawings , and the recipient colours it in ! Painting by numbers ! Barbara was in Paris so Joel has already recieved one from there , and he has sent 3 from different nearby harbour locations ...none of which are Cobor !
We plan to meet up tomorrow at a costal location ...possibly Cobnor ? The aim is to paint the colours that day in a Paul Klee style grid ? possibly using the system they developed in the last project of dividing up a canvas into a grid ,painting one square each from a limited colour pallet on the grid and then swapping canvases to again paint another random square on the grid until the canvas is filled. Then meet again at this location to record the colours throught the year.
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