Distances

Reflecting on the distances in one's head between what you think you might make and what actually happens when you put paint to canvas in a studio. Between what you think you might photograph when on site and what you review on screen (I shoot digitally nowadays). Between what you feel might represent your experience, say, of walking through a village, and what you eventually decide can do so on a wall in a gallery. The distances between, the journeys that punctuate your reviews, ruminations and decisions, are probably a really significant part of the whole experience and yet these rambling thoughts and the images, real and imagined, are almost impossible to capture. This is the very first of the canvases that I am working on towards the 46 that will make up the painted elements of the whole project - and there is no guarantee that it will look anything like it does now when it goes onto the wall of the gallery. Indeed it is very likely that it will have been altered, erased, rethought and repainted several times over.