Roy Good

Richard Adams 2021

These new works on paper and canvas bring my painting and music processes to a new point of combined harmony. Harmony in music is the sound of 2 or more notes put together to create a pleasing sound. This can also apply to painting, where 2 or more lines or brush strokes placed together can create a pleasing image.

As a jazz musician there is much improvisation and therefore risk taking in order to create harmony. The same risks apply to my painting.  I have endeavoured  to create harmony between light and shade, line and stroke. In this new body of work I have incorporated aspects of music. I have used 5 blocks of colour to represent counterpoint or 5 areas of light and shade which represent Forte or Pianissimo thereby creating a new harmony etc