Probably yes, as planned as any painting can be. I think the hope is always to go ‘off piste’ and be lead by the painting as it develops. It has probably sent me more towards a naturally modelled form that I was intending. I like a modelled form, I don’t think I could ever reduce it to a Matisse paper cut out. I must follow my intentions and make the next painting of some garden hedges, the forms are much less complicated and it will be interesting to see how I can pack the same level of intensity into them that I have here.
Yew tree. Day 7