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July 20, 2005

Maybe it’s just me…

But the number of days necessary to get to the point where painting is possible is directly proportional to the amount of crap in my head. I have to spend days cleaning out all this stuff; days spent making coffee and moving things around the studio. Maybe the time is used up until there is nothing more left to do except paint. I don’t know.

I don’t know why some days I paint. Well, I do know why some days I paint. What I don’t know is why I paint in the first place. It’s got something to do with something – but I’ve forgotten.

I get around to painting by the proven method of Sneaking Up On It. For those of you for whom this phrase means nought I suggest you attend my talk: Sneaking up on Drawing, queues now forming at a disused cinema near you…

I sneak up on myself by sneakily priming a panel, preferably an old panel. Then sneakily putting the outline of an image on it. All this is non-committal, non-pretentious, sneaky, matter-of-fact stuff which in no way at any time purports to me being an artist or artistic. Then I sort of think: hey, I’ll just put a bit of this here and a bit of that there and oh fuck I’m painting again…

Posted by john at July 20, 2005 01:17 PM

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