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!)

 

Natural History - a painting's geology

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.