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Since learning to paint, art has had a big influence on my music, especially the process and physicality of creating a work. The work of Peter Wileman, in particular, resonates with me. Wileman’s work, at first glance, seems to take the drastic gestural brushstrokes and dripping paint to create an abstraction without a subject, and yet can make them representative of an image, such as a landscape. I found this idea remarkably beautiful as a composer.

 

It felt fitting to use the wide variety of colours from the orchestra to evoke Wileman’s use of colour and texture. This is why I called this piece a “painting”.

“Until I found you” takes its title from Wileman’s painting of Rannoch Moor. From the point of view of the artist, or in this case the composer and the orchestra, the piece moves from abstraction to something more concrete. From the sweeping gestures in the orchestra and the “dripping” of aleatoric textures, a vastness and longing for the beyond, present in Wileman’s painting, emerges in my work.

 

 

With dedication to Jane and Graham Dupree.