Below are three stages of a painting that was worked on over the course of a year. Often, I couldn't see where to go with it, I would put paint on the rub it off, sometimes nothing would happen would on it for a week, except just looking and looking to see if I could find a clue or way in, which reminds me of a great quote by Matisse;
"The next time I return to the work, if I discover a weakness in the unity, I find my way back by means of the weakness - I return through the breach- and I conceive the whole afresh.Thus the whole thing comes alive again."
In the end it became my favourite painting from the recent series and is like all favourites a talisman of possibilities.
