Inky Leaves Podcasting - An Audio Sketchbook

Episode 15: Blue Flower - Switzerland, Spain and Ireland

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In this episode, I talk about my new studio and how working in isolation affects our sense of time. I consider ideas of time and how as painters we have to think about space and time in ways that many might not. I touch on Hockney, but of course one cannot forget the Cubists and early Scandinavian painters who also played with space-time. I am no expert and am merely skirting around a subject that has only just begun to grab my attention as I delve further into blue and what it means in terms of metaphysical longing. I feel another trip to the library coming on!I then bring you the sounds of Zurich, St. Gallen and the Swiss Alps where I travelled to this summer in my search for wild Gentians. The climb through the mountains was pretty tough as I was recovering from an illness, but it was utterly amazing. The beauty of the Swiss Alps is unrivaled and whilst being in this sublime environment I felt I was able to connect with true 'Strum und Drang' and the kindred souls who first begun the European Rom