Why do some people chose the more difficult path? I’m one of them. I cycle up steep hills rather than along our flat coastline. I am also on some unknown painting journey that is certainly yielding the results I had hoped for but each painting is a struggle. I suppose that is how it should be if you keep raising the bar. Dissatisfaction with your own work is often a key driver for many artists, myself included. I don’t know why but just recently Roualt has entered my pantheon of artists. I think it is the way he carves the images out of the paint, but they only emerge after much reworking. That’s how these paintings are forming and I have to go through a transition from agony to ecstasy in order to achieve it. This painting is heading towards a finish.
Into the landscape. Day 6