Original artwork description:

I have also written a book (unpublished; somewhere in the attic; its rubbish) so I know the emotional euphoria of finishing a great creative, albeit ultimately doomed, endeavour. Even though the Mona Lisa took 16 years to paint and Lord of the Rings 12 years to write a painting usually doesn't take as long as a book to complete. However an artist can still obsess over a painting, dream about getting it right, ponder over what is going wrong and feel an enormous sense of release when it is satisfactorily completed. White Square comprises 40 mini paintings and it wasn't until I started/completed each one that I realised that even though each painting was relatively small this was going to be 40 times as excruciating as painting one big canvas. But don't worry I'm in therapy for PTSD now (Painting Traumatic Stress Disorder) and it is going well. I have also been advised to hang upside-down in a darkened flotation tank each evening listening to whalesong accompanied by the audio version of The Critique of Pure Reason by Kant, as narrated by Claudia Winkelman.

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Acrylics

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