One of my enduring fantasies has been to imagine myself as a composer of long dramatic symphonies which I would conduct to the ecstatic applause of huge audiences. Fate arranged that I would be a painter instead, but music has remained an important part of my life and for many years I played with the notion of making ‘musical’ paintings. I failed because painting is in space and music is in time, but the urge remained.
Now, after nearly seventy years as a painter, I feel I may have to some extent succeeded, because I have produced some pictures which are an equivalent, rather than an interpretation of music. That is, at least, my hope.
Some of the landscapes in the present exhibition use the same basic composition, which has given me greater freedom to experiment with colour and texture. Hence, I have chosen the title ‘Variations on a Theme’.
The mythological pictures are included partly because the subjects still fascinate me and partly because I found a large collage in my studio which I had forgotten and lost. I felt it deserved a showing, with some companions.
Glyn Morgan 2010 |
“Landscape Symphony V” collage crayon, pastel and watercolour 2009 4 x 19.5 inches