Trying to extract a painting from the landscape.

                                                             oil on canvas 169x120cms

 Which is, I think what all painters who base their work on ideas of landscape are wrestling with. There is a line in The Bright Field, a poem by R.S.Thomas which reads: I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field. It is a poem which alludes to the act of forgetting, of not paying attention to so common place an occurrence, and yet..

Of the many things that I think about when making a painting the act of making remains important. The application of the paint, the marks that are made with the painting tool, or the fingers, the turn of the wrist, the action of the arm. I am aware that I am building both an object and