I quite like his use of colour and often he does an indoor scene with an outdoor background like this painting.
I hadn't heard of this local artist, now 97 years old, but then I don't really follow local art much. There is a retrospective of his work currently and I was quite attracted to his paintings and his ideas. I liked this quote of Matisse he put on his blog:
"the effort needed to see things without distraction demands a kind of courage and this courage is essential to the artist who has to look at everything as though he was seeing it for the first time. if he loses this faculty he cannot express himself in an original,that is a personal way."
John Koerner, Artist
