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Impasto Flints and Grasses

One of those paintings that refused to resolve for weeks. Two discarded canvases; ten overpainted versions under this layer. The darkest and densest painting I've done. In the end I had to accept that this rather mysterious - and unexpectedly geometric solution was the one. It's now May, so I can leave the preserved trays of flints in my studio and look outside for inspiration again.


Impasto Flints and Grasses (2004) Oil on canvas, 61 cm x 59 cm
Detail

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