Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and… stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to ‘walk about’ into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?

–Wassily Kandinsky

introduced to the concept of using music as a muse for paining and drawing we spend an exciting day listening drawing and painting.

2 charcoal and chalk drawings to ‘Pulse’ by Steve Reich a rhythmic constantly chaning piec of music, I followed the changing tones and found I produced to two intersting drawings. We worked monochromatically

Later we moved to colour. I felt that music needed a ‘score’ so I constructed a 3 meter scroll and using a rosemary sprig as a ‘brush’ I worked back and forth with basic colours of red blue and yellow to convey my feelings of the music ” Interpretations of Dreams’ by John Zorn, an hour long meditation.

I found the method deeply satisfying. I have been frightened of working in the abstract, and I felt freed on my usual fears. My obsession with figurativ drawing took a back seat with music. I will certianly be using this method again. Using a sprig of rosemary was also interesting, I feelt the marks were very expressive, the needle leaves held watery paint well

a final subdued piece by Brian eno produced a subtle Pop Art attempt with colouring inks. It was not so succesful, as there was no room left on the drying racks I did not use paint, the nibs were too thin and there is a lot of paper to cover on a sheet of A1. I also understand that one cannot be Bridget Reilly without a ruler. I will put in some tone next week

Listening to Brian Eno 15 Jan 2024