Sat. March 31, 2012
Theo Whalley
Theodore Whalley
In October 2008 my sons bought me canvases and oil pigment for my 78th birthday, the result was that I could begin to play with paint as I had never before, and these paintings are the result of the ensuing struggle to break free of my roots.
My art experience and education was on Merseyside and began at grammar school in 1941 with an art master who had trained in Paris in the early years of the 20th C, and he drummed perspective drawing, water colour painting, and a respect for the Old Masters into me. After national service I went to art school where the painting schools were dedicated to “the Mersey Mud” type of colour. It has taken a long time to shake off the habits of accurate drawing, tri-axial blending and the use of tertiary colours.
For many years I have been making paintings of landscapes and people in watercolour pastel and acrylics. All of a passable, and of a conventional type, some I felt were quite good, but I felt I had reached the end of the line.
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