Today I seem to be channeling Tracy Helgeson (her blog here) and so I apologise but it was completely unintentional. :) But you should go see her work, it's gorgeous.
These are some of the finished Greenwich Park paintings. (they will be wrapped around thick boards) 
Greenwich Park is an unusual subject for me in several ways. The shapes are different - with hills and curves - but since I used to paint the Scottish Highlands it's not exactly something I can't paint. There are lines of paths through the park - and lines aren't something usually included in my work (in fact I have glazed over most of the strong lines in these paintings also). And it's just so GREEN. Now, I know the sea is green too but up until a few years ago I never used green, didn't own a tube of it and didn't mix it. Now I do use green quite a lot but it's usually glazed in combination with all sorts of blues underneath.
Greenwich Park is just green green, grass green. Gah.
So why, other than loving my local park, did I want to paint it? It's different. I wanted to take something and explore how and why I do or do not paint lines and areas. In the midst of the project I started really considering my use of colour fields and how to break away from figuration even further to explore these fields while keeping a true sense of landscape. Working with a subject matter vastly different from my seascapes gives leave to be totally unrestrained.
And unrestrained means I can just throw away a painting too.
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i specially love the one in the middle - it's really beautiful :)
I love the greens and I love the lines. Come to mention it I love Greenwhich Park (although I've only been there a few times and then it was to look at the architecture). Nice works Tina.
Painting a really green park without producing something that would be described as a green painting... Yes! Splendidly done.
I think they are lovely and there's not one that's "too green" for me. But I have to ask - did you, unrestrainedly, throw a painting away? ;-)
LOL Caths! No I didn't throw one away. But what I did do was not worry about overworking them. And the best bit was working on loose canvas meant I could decide to 'throw away' part of one. In fact the largest canvas I did I'm only going to use about 1/2 of it. Does that count?
Love this new (?) direction Tina and that you are pushing the color fields but with the intention to stay grounded in the landscape.
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