stool 01/2015, 15x22, transparent watercolour on 140lb arches watercolour paper.

from the studies that preceeded this painting, the difficulties of perspective and complexity are apparent. my first sheet became so worn from erasures that I resorted to using white gouache to clean up areas enough to pick out the paths of individual strands of wicker – an icon of a humourous drawing gone terribly obtuse.

and all for a strange composition with three possibly freudian objects crushed against the top edge of the sheet by a fragile disintegrating structure. what may lie hidden from many is the hazardous thrill of pouring a loose wash onto a work requiring many days of intense concentration.