End of the studio cycle

Natural History VI the upper horizontal piece,at the AAF London last week. It featured in the previous post  being worked on at an early stage. So, now bought by a nice couple from Hackney, it goes its own way and closes a cycle. I'm sure had it remained in the studio, one day I would have seen new possibilities or directions and begun working back into it again,and perhaps in that way we are always painting the same painting. I like the quote by Arshile Gorky,

"I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while"  

Below a couple more images from the stand of  Four Square Fine Arts

 

End of the studio cycle

Natural History VI the upper horizontal piece,at the AAF London last week. It featured in the previous post  being worked on at an early stage. So, now bought by a nice couple from Hackney, it goes its own way and closes a cycle. I'm sure had it remained in the studio, one day I would have seen in it some new possibilities or directions and begun to work back into it again,and in that way perhaps we are always painting the same painting. I like the quote by Arshile Gorky,

"I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while"  

Below a couple more images from the stand of  Four Square Fine Arts

Everything Flows- but at some point there's an exhibition

In a previous post Everything Flows I put in an image of a student in the studio on work experience, mixing up the predictability in my own work, by having him pour the paint. Here just after pouring the paint, he's deciding how it should move around the surface.

And below the painting ten months later, when the flowing stops, ready for the AAF in London on Wednesday.( Though the second Law of thermodynamics, as I found out in the fascinating new series "The Wonders of the Universe",  dictates that the painting will continue to flow, imperceptibly but relentlessly, back to disorder!)