The observation of soil erosion in a small puddle suggested a leaching of colour caused by one element on another, and a good starting point for a painting. Working in themed series means that I work on a number of paintings at any one time and some are abandoned because they just don’t seem to come together. But others, like this one, are set aside and tantalise with the promise of possible resolution. The advantage of this delay is that with time thought processes can slightly alter or a painting can offer up a solution; this could be a radical overhaul or a slight change of colour,tone or detail, or simply an insistence that the original idea was strong enough after all. After some doubt the original conviction returned sufficiently to press on to completion.
Leaching Yellow (dyptych) 112x133cms Oil on linen
