Chicken on a farm gate. Print

Chicken on a farm gate. Oil on primed paper. 2022 This oil painting was based on a gouache sketch done while on holiday camping on an old farm in the north east of England. For me art daily art practice is all about the relationship seeing and reacting. On both sides of the easel. Because that's what a great painting is, isn't it? It's seeing. As artists we are tasked with the job of being able to see. Maybe see something that everyone else also sees but we take a brush and highlight and say "look!" Maybe the thing we are highlighting isn't so much a particular object or scene but a moment or feeling. Some moment outside of linear words, and when the the viewer sees it they may go "oh yeah, I get what you mean". At that moment the art, artist and viewer are connected.