Description
This painting began as a response to one of the Pablo Picasso etchings of a bull. In the weeks and months that followed the original vanished and I simply responded to what was on the paper.
I began work each day by spending time looking at what I had done and tried to clear my mind of anything that I had experienced that day or the day before. I waited, sometimes for minutes, sometimes for hours, for the painting to tell me what I needed to do next. Once I had made the first mark that day I waited again. It was a conversation between the painting and me. I had no idea of what the painting was going to say, or what I was going to say, anymore than I would had I been talking to another person. At some stage I had nothing more to say and the conversation ended.
The paper on which I work is an Italian paper: 300gm Fabriano Artistico. It is acid free and will not yellow or discolour with age. The oil paint is made by the best colour man in the UK, Michael Harding.
