THE PENNY DROPPED TODAY

No, I’m not a ‘rubbish’ painter, but I have been wasting far too much time and effort experimenting and searching for ‘the magic formula’ to fast track toward completion, when in fact today, and perhaps because of recent drawing endeavours, I made the decision to forget it and paint using the tried and tested use of the brush, getting stuck in, and needless to say, it paid dividends. I’m not the kind of painter who is satisfied by flashy techniques or convinced by ‘happy accidents’, and have realised, I never will be. I’ve simply got to grasp that the way I work involves time and patience. The journey of discovery is personal to each and every artist, and whether that involves a god-dam clever brush stroke to ignite the imagination, a feature film, or in my case when it comes to painting, building up layers of both paint and meaning to express a mood or concept, then so be it!