I have painted since I was eight – Now, seventy years later, it still excites me.
It is a voyage of adventure to find beauty amid the mundane and sometimes downright ugly as well as the picturesque. There is the need to record the feelings that caused a ‘Ha ha’ moment whether in beautiful countryside or city backstreets.Good examples can be found in the various paintings produced of Malaga Cathedral, known affectionally locally as ‘La Manquita’. Its solitary tower looks down upon the narrow streets surrounding while it lifts your gaze skywards where, in the bright morning light, it blends with the sky. For we search for light.
Light in all its shapes, colours and forms inspires my paintings. I love its effect seen in the orange sunrises and sunsets off the English coasts, the unbelievably soft light of Venice or the bright reflections and deep cast shadows of the urban scenes I love; especially those of London, Madrid, Paris and Rome.
I paint what is inspirational to me. It is a personal interpretation but one with which I hope others empathise. For as I express myself in my paintings I believe buyers of original paintings express their individuality and enhance others’ perception of their quality of life.
Brian Reifer
