The Big Serpentine 1920

Dorrit Black must have used oil on canvas to create this landscape. The green and brown pigments are thick and textured. You can almost feel the act of painting itself, as if it came into being, emerging through intuition. I sympathize with her, standing there, looking at the trees... I wonder what she might have been thinking when she made it? I can imagine her standing in nature looking at the scene before her, and trying to capture it on a small piece of canvas. The paint is thick and applied with strong brushstrokes, which really shapes my experience of the painting, resonating with me emotionally and intellectually. There's such an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas between artists, across time, inspiring one another’s creativity. What can be read is that painting is a form of expression which embraces ambiguity and uncertainty. We all look and find something new.