Two Stand in the Water

It's often a difficult decision to know when a painting is finished. It is often an intuitive moment which brings the need to continue 'digging out' the work to an end and let the painting settle into itself. This painting took shape fairly quickly and I must be careful not to overwork it.

Boy in the Water

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No.5

These 5 images are the early chronologies of my new painting 'Boy in the Water' which show how a painting not only develops but changes, sometimes massively and can bear no resemblance to its beginning. A painting often takes on a life of its own and at times it feels as if the artist, me in this instance, is only the conduit. This painting is not finished and may change further, even to the point where I need to change the title because the finished piece no longer tallies with the early title I have given it.