Reconnecting with Abstract Creation – finally finished

Last year I felt drawn back to the abstract creation painting that I started in March 2021. I left it alone, propped up by the wall of my room and got on with other things. Read about how I did it here

I did a bit to it in February this year having been inspired by doing collage. Again, it was put back by the wall.

The reason I had abandoned it was that I was unhappy with the way the sea/river was the wrong colour and I didn’t know what to do with it.

As I had been getting into collage I decided to make it more 3D and added the wool for the waves, scrunched up paper for some mountains and thick paint for the fire plus some broken shells on the beach. I had wanted to make the sea flow into a river and behind the mountains. I got the colour wrong and left it like that until today.

A few months ago, while walking and thinking of other things, my mind was pondering about the timing of my retirement, and I once again turned to the painting. I imagined a doorway and it being a closed door, or perhpas a door just ajar. Would the door be opening into the painting or out of it? Should I put a figure in the doorway in silhouette so it is not clear which direction they are going in.?

I remembered that I had read a psalm and been amazed at how much my painting tied in with it. So when I got home I had a look at my blog to be reminded. I was not surprised to see that it was Psalm 148. However I was intrigued to see my blog also had a reference to Joel and the valley of decision. I was in the valley of decision. And 3 months ago I made the decision. My time of transition that I had prayed about and identified in March last year had an end in sight and in the diary.

And today was the day I finally got around to adding the door to my Creation painting. I am not sure if I am this side going through to the unknown, or behind the door just about to enter the scene. As I will be retiring to live by the sea, perhpas it is that way. When I had imagined a door back in March it didn’t have a handle and it was closed. This door does have a handle and it is open, ready and waiting for me to step through.