Lonely Water "Lonely Water" is the first painting I have sold since going blind - and as Van Gogh was "supposed" to have sold only one painting in his whole lifetime and that to his brother - well, I must have done something right. Lonely Water was again inspired by music of E J Moeran, plus a visit to Buttermere in the Lake District, though more for the loneliness of the area rather than for its beauty. The design again is simple, with the foreground shaped as a semi-circular curve presenting a rough track, grass verges and scattered flowers. The top half of the painting is also curved with a woodland track with lakeside trees. There are the remains of an old stone wall and a broken tree, with its stump behind the wall and the trunk and floating foliage angled into the lake. The majority of the painting is taken up by the lake, which mirrors a bleak sky streaked with silver. |
