Sunflowers in an orange pot Painting

I am a figurative, expressionist painter who is constantly at odds with creating the pictorial image. I struggle with "˜truth "˜and how difficult it is to paint. I can spend months and years on a single image and still resort to abandoning it. I look and hope for chance to take place. I hope for something special to come from the materiality of the substance i.e. oil paint. At some point the work will be finished. It suddenly happens; when I least expect it. For me there is nothing more difficult than creating a painting;yet nothing more satisfying.