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  • A painting isn’t finished until the brush is put away

    A painting isn’t finished until the brush is put away

    You can only laugh. I was just putting the last touch to the painting when I lost control of my brush. It jumped up in the air, spinning like a circus knife in front of my eyes. It hit the page, sable first. Splat!

    I had just loaded the brush with Vandyke Brown moments before. The glimmering sea had lost its shine. Now there was a dark brown whale in my watercolour.

    Later, I painted over the crime scene with opaque white. The sea sparkled again. It would never be perfect, but it’s finished.

    The Coast Road, Malahide, Ireland 33 x 23 cm

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