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painting music: Variations on a Theme

In creating this painting my main aim was to express a sense of layering of the many thousands of voices that have brought this work to life over the centuries. I used collage fragments of the original printed and autograph scores, adding more gestural marks and graphic elements to suggest more contemporary and varied interpretations.

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painting music: Mozart Quintet for Piano & Winds

In creating this painting my main aim was to express a sense of layering of the many thousands of voices that have brought this work to life over the centuries. I used collage fragments of the original printed and autograph scores, adding more gestural marks and graphic elements to suggest more contemporary and varied interpretations.

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painting music: Britten Sea Interludes

For me, there are few pieces of music so evocative of a sense of place as these Interludes. The coast of East Anglia has a particular stark beauty, and I only have to hear the first few bars of this piece to be taken right back there.…

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Painting music: Libertango

Combining influences, Piazzolla created a new style of music; modern, full of energy, and rooted in tradition.

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