I thought you were off topic until you wrote
...
> great feel that I stumbled on more by luck than judgement.
...

My art history isn't up to much but I believe most of the surrealists aimed
for just that approach. As an example: the Ernst that was posted the other
day was, IIRC, created by scraping paint across rough surfaces, then working
images into the resulting random patterns.

There's a million and one definitions for surrealism. According to Google
this is the original :
'SURREALISM, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express,
verbally, in writing, or by other means, the real process of thought.
Thought's dictation, in the absence of all control exercised by the reason
and outside all aesthetic or moral preoccupations.'
(Andre Breton 1924)

I don't understand all of that, but I think the crux of it is "absence of
all control exercised by the reason". i.e.. the less you think about it, the
better it will be. I'm not sure this is good advice!


Anyway, on topic or not that's a lovely picture. Colours and composition are
great, and I love that painterly feel. Surreal? I'd say a kind of art deco
take on cubism, but either way I like it!

apologies for rambling...
Luke.

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