Although this is no banal translation of the subject there hopefully comes a moment in most paintings where the focus moves away from your original source material to how the painting is actually operating, in terms of colour, space, rhythm and forms. I am looking at this painting to see if this is happening, not quite yet but I hope that next time it will start talking to me. Happy with where it is at for now.
Coquetdale Valley, Northumberland. Day 2.