This one is the view at night
from my partner’s place on the river Llobregat in Catalunya with the old bridge
between Sant Fruitos de Bages and Navarcles. She saw this incredible storm
approaching and sent me some videos of it. I've cheated the view to include the
view in the opposite direction of the massif of Montserrat (at right) since
I've been attempting to work the range into a composition for at least a year
and this just worked.



As always with my landscapes (and with almost all landscape painting
historically) this is a summation and a composition derived from an actual
place and time; edited, composed and adjusted to heighten what was seen but
most importantly felt.



And in that sense one could say my practice with landscape painting is
analagous to Ansel Adams photography dictum; 'the negative is the score, the
print is the performance' with the simple difference being that there is usually
just one painting from the source material.

The title refers to our
historical period where conflict bigotry and wilful ignorance and a storm seems
always to loom on our collective horizon.