An artist’s reflection on how rhythm, interval, and attention connect ambient music and forest painting—translating sound into structure, colour, and space

A close-up look at “Forest Ensemble,” where pale birch trunks and layered blues create a calm, rhythmic woodland atmosphere.

Poet and academic Dr David Kelly spent time with the forest paintings and wrote in direct response. What follows arrived unedited, in a single sitting. The visual spacing is the poet's own — the intervals between lines echoing the intervals between trees. What would the forest cry If a forest could cry out in a way that would make you know it were crying? It would, I expect, cry out "I am forest" In the thick dialect of foliage The rich lexicon of leaf mould Under the tongue

There is a paradox at the heart of painting that I have never been able to resolve; in fact, I believe it cannot be resolved, only experienced. Every painting I make is, in a way, a negotiation with a ghost: the ghost of the Renaissance window. The Window We Cannot Close In 1435, Leon Battista Alberti described the picture plane as a 'finestra aperta' — an open window through which the viewer looks into a constructed world. Although this was initially a metaphor, it evolved i

The palette knife is the primary tool of my practice — not a secondary instrument for mixing paint, but the principal means by which paint is applied, moved, and shaped on the canvas. Working with a knife rather than a brush introduces a particular set of constraints and possibilities that are central to the character of the work. Constraint as Productive Force The knife cannot do everything that a brush can do. It cannot produce the fine, controlled lines of a sable brush; i

This post sets out the material composition of the cold wax medium I use — the beeswax, damar resin, and solvent — and describes how these elements behave during and after painting. It is intended as a reference for those who want to understand the physical basis of the work.

The transformative power of oil & Cold Wax medium

Peter Corr providing a guide to a joint exhibition of artwork with his daughter Louisa Corr at The Old Fire Engine House in Ely