RABBIT

This painting deserves a section all to its own. It took about two and a half years to complete and it was the last painting I did before moving into limbo.

I hadn’t planned to down brushes, but personal change – moving home, promotion at work – meant that when I packed my art materials I moved into the new home and didn’t unpack them again until I was moving on to the other side of the English Channel.

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“Decisions take time and so progress is slow; to invest time on ideas and then consider their worth; the execution of an idea and its re-execution. Confidence is taking the step, being sure and needing no second opinion, but knowing when and how to go. I’m war-torn and dispute is no good. Even advice has its limitations but then is it worth taking? The way through the wood is worth it and the path ahead will emerge. It will lead to new pastures and will be a pasture and vista in its own right and by itself. It will exist without interference but will have inference and input, but distilled and purified so that the experience of the painting [childhood] is only further refined and enhanced. Childhood has its unseen and unwanted influences.”

Art Diary – Entry for Rabbit – 8^th June 1997