Muster Point — Monochrome Crowd Painting salmon fishing This is an art object

This is an art object of unabashed contemplation

Stylishly painted in muted colours

and laughter

have absorbed the colour from the landscape thus draining it of colour to leave us with the muted colours you now see"

Muster Point — Monochrome Crowd Painting salmon fishing This is an art objectThe work of American abstract expressionist Franz Kline has inspired me since the 1970s when I first saw his work in the reception area of Tate Britain. The raw energy of Kline's work was so captivating for me as a young art student. For financial reasons I wasn't able to follow a career in fine art but that early encounter stayed with me. Over fifty years later my enthusiasm for Kline has never faded to the point where I had to incorporate his work