In the minds eye

I came across an interesting remark in a a book recently (What are you looking at, 100 years of modern art. by Will Gompertz)

David Hockney said “A camera cannot see what a human can see, there is always something missing”.

If several people took a photo of the same view or object from the same place and time they would turn out to be much the same. If several artists painted the same view or objects they would be surprisingly different, concentrating on different details, even seeing different colours. We all bring our very individual years of experience, spatial study, stored information and interests and obsessions to the equation, and express it in the colours, composition and atmosphere we put into our artwork.

Now, I have some time over the summer before I will be involved in exhibiting again, I can concentrate on pursuing by own individual view of the world and revel in portraying it in paint, from my minds eye.