THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 20th DECEMBER 2020: DAY 266

  "On my easel No 13:"Working title, 'Where'.

So I've been working on the forset triptych for some time and and on the whole I'm very happy with the way that it's progressing. However, mainly due to the thickness of the impasto, it is progressing rather slowly and so over the weekend I decided to start work on another piece on my second easel. This is a real contrast piece to the forest; the paint, although not quite washes is much thinner than the impasto of the forest. Also I am workingthis piece with brush whereas the forest is painted entirely with knife, the style ia actually quite a throw-back to paintings of my earlier career, although the palette is very different. . The sharp contrast of these two styles feels very appropriate to be being considered, side by side as I spend to much energy in reflection on my paintings.