Acrylic by Martin Dutton SWAc
Starplay Night Above Exeter
I have been compulsively making pictures for sixty three years now, and my zeal is unabated! My work is multifaceted and I am interested in many aspects of the creation of visual images.
Over the years this diversity of ideas and subject matter has resolved itself into the identification of different "themes" in my working process - different starting points, different final aims.
I work on an individual theme for as long as the creative flow is alive or until the activity is interrupted by life's events and personal circumstances. After the interruption I will often return to a previous theme which will, in turn, follow it's own unpredictable time scale.
This painting, alongside Starplay Day Above Exeter, derives from the title and musical ideas of the French composer Olivier Messiaen’s “Turangalila “ symphony. The title Turangalila combines two Sanskrit words ‘Turanga’, (movement / rhythm ) and ‘Lila’, literally “play”- but play in the sense of the divine action upon the cosmos - the play of creation, destruction and reconstruction of the stars and the forces of the universe which, over an immense period of time, brought human life into existence. This play of the stars maintains our continuous human existence - hence …Starplayday and Starplaynight…
…the stars and forces of the cosmos play through us and around us even while we look at the image of their play above our city.Acrylic on Canvas
89x108.5x4cm
Framed in an Open Frame