Now the thing about a panting rather than a photograph is that the artist can have more control over the dominant emotion that the work is meant to convey.
Which isn’t to say that a photograph can’t come close either by the use of light, or how the image is cropped, but with a painting the artist can decide what he/she wants to see rather than what is actually out there.
And that is what I think we have got here with Peter’s painting of the Imperial War Museum North.
Anyone who knows his work will be familiar with the “Topper sky” which is always bright and very blue.
But not here, not with this painting of the museum. Of course anyone who has stood at any one of the Metro stops around the Quays or up on the Cornbrook platform will recognise that grey grim sky which often brings with it a biting wind and a fair amount of very wet driving rain.
But leaving that aside I rather think his choice of sky fits well with the metal roof of the building and the much of the subject matter contained in the IWMN.
Peter and I rarely discuss his paintings in advance of them being sent over, so as I sit here I then interpret what I see and write the story in much the same way as he fixes his painting from the landscape.
So it will be interesting to see what he says.
Location; Salford,
Painting; Imperial War Museum North, Painting © 2016 Peter Topping, Paintings from Pictures.
Web: www.paintingsfrompictures.co.uk
And that is what I think we have got here with Peter’s painting of the Imperial War Museum North.
Anyone who knows his work will be familiar with the “Topper sky” which is always bright and very blue.
But not here, not with this painting of the museum. Of course anyone who has stood at any one of the Metro stops around the Quays or up on the Cornbrook platform will recognise that grey grim sky which often brings with it a biting wind and a fair amount of very wet driving rain.
But leaving that aside I rather think his choice of sky fits well with the metal roof of the building and the much of the subject matter contained in the IWMN.
Peter and I rarely discuss his paintings in advance of them being sent over, so as I sit here I then interpret what I see and write the story in much the same way as he fixes his painting from the landscape.
So it will be interesting to see what he says.
Location; Salford,
Painting; Imperial War Museum North, Painting © 2016 Peter Topping, Paintings from Pictures.
Web: www.paintingsfrompictures.co.uk
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