The Meeting of the Waters (both sides now)

150cm x 150cm

Oils on canvas

In slip frame ready to hang

I loved making this large painting. Latent with oils, it took a turn mid-process - as if the sky opened and the mood lifted. Sort of like an illumination. A settling after a storm earlier in the composition.  I am very much enjoying the application of thick layers of paint. There are still as many layers (upwards of 50 layers of oils) but there has been a shift - a  softening and a layering up all at once. Keeping a new found tension, taut but whisper soft at the same time. 

A sensation of holding on and letting go has always been at the centre of my work but the passing of my parents has, I feel, ultimately resulted in a deepening of my practice and a more profound appreciation of the natural world and our place in it.