Original Painting | The Start of a Summer | Crossing: 2.2 | 120 x 160 cm Framing Option:Natural Oak Floating Framed (+3cm) (5.5cm depth) surrounded by cascading yellow-green leaves

surrounded by cascading yellow-green leaves

Bold gestural brushwork with palette knife and brush layering

6 is that what you look at looks at you

The Crossing

I just had to stop performing long enough to notice

Original Painting | The Start of a Summer | Crossing: 2.2 | 120 x 160 cm Framing Option:Natural Oak Floating Framed (+3cm) (5.5cm depth) surrounded by cascading yellow-green leavesTitle: The Start of a Summer Paradox: The beginning arrives disguised as an ending. The Story This was the painting where I first felt myself arrive. Everything before it was preparation doing what I was taught, painting what I thought I should. This one came through differently. The colours were too loud, the sky was wrong, and the figure was me sitting in a place I had not found yet. I painted it before I understood what was starting. Looking back,