I’ve had a lucky break. The opportunity to take over double my usual (somewhat cramped) studio space. This has transformed my ability to see the seven panels I’m working on in sequence, and in to see them all together.
Double the space is glorious. It changes everything – I can spread my wings and be bolder with the work. I honestly feel it has moved things on dramatically – together with the working through of ideas that the painting process brings.
I’m coming to realise more and more how I must feel my way. That for some of my responses I can plan, but for others I just need to work through it. Painting is thinking in this sense.
My motto last week for painting was – you have to break it to make it. I risked everything by reworking one panel which I thought was finished. It was a solid piece, it did the job, but there was one element that niggled. What replaces my original painting is a radically different and more emotionally powerful interpretation of this particular stage in Felicia Browne’s journey.
The two images below give a hint of progress.
