The push and pull of a painting is a challenge I relish, finding the right marks and mood, balance and tone. Somedays the need is for a greater abstraction, others a simple narrative. Horizons come and they go again. Coupled with an inner narrative, freedom of speech and a little bravery thrown in paintings can arrive at their final resting place, with the desired intensity that has been a thread from the start. Other days they do not find this, then you start again. There’s no shame in deciding a painting is not ready, no frustration either just the knowledge that there will be another day to find the right stage of the tide.
Take This Longing
Oil on Board 35x30cm 2023
