It's not what I originally intended

A selection of pages from the catalogue.

Work on cataloguing the paintings and sculptures in my series Daughters of the Caribbean Sun is coming along nicely, although not as I originally intended. 

I began with the idea of including all the paintings, sketches, drawings and sculptures that had contributed to the series I began almost forty years ago. But force of numbers overwhelmed me. I have instead condensed the catalogue to work that is representative - that being about a third of the total.

I also originally intended indicating what I consider to be the good, bad and indifferent, expecting that my score card would have a only a few that warranted five stars, whilst the majority clocked in at four, three, two and one star. But within an indifferent painting there there are often passages that, to the eye of the artist and cognoscenti, come close to perfection . The more I looked, the less able I was to differentiate one category from another. As with the exploratory lines of a sketch, all have contributed to the collection as a whole. Hence, none can be discounted. 

I have arranged the condensed catalogue approximately in chronicle order, so as to illustrate how my way of working from the nude has developed. Other than the images, all I have added is an indication of size, the name of the model and a portfolio file record. 

While delving through hundreds of paintings and sketches I have found some gems that I had long forgotten about. These I will share in forthcoming posts.