Harry Robertson, Artist: 'Breathing in'

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'Ogwen'

Oil Painting on Panel.
Size:w21"xh28" / w53cm x h71cm
Owned by Royal Cambrian Academy

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I remember years ago, hearing a songwriter (can't remember which one!) talking about the periods when his creativity and production had hit a fallow patch, and he called this slump 'breathing in'. Writers call it a 'block'.

Well, I'm going through something of an unproductive period at the moment. I'm not sure why. Such periods come and go. I think that the best way of dealing with them is to simply keep working. And sooner or later an even keel arrives.

In the meantime I thought I might show a few of the sketches which I made when the 'Ogwen' painting (above) was coming into being. Here's one of the pencil sketches, and below that are some (rather scrappy photos of) stages of the production of the painting itself ........