Why can’t you just paint a great painting?, especially when you have spent so much of your life doing it. I can’t use the word ‘dedication’ and maybe that’s the problem. Does the rate of improvement have to be glacial? its exhausting having to move so slowly. Its a shame because I like the painting, I just want it to be so much more. My favourite painting quote is by Francis Bacon, you need to know something about him to get the humour: ‘ Artists are never satisfied with their work, though I believe Henry Moore is’. I will have to accept my fate and plod on, its part of the tradition. Painting is finished.
Evening in the Coquetdale Valley