Inspired by a weird Hipstamatic photo of a doocot (there are ruined and repaired gothic stone doocots (dovecots) everywhere here in Fife), this painting was the beginning of a new phase of painting for me – using the unbleached fine shirt linen as a surface gessoed onto the plain canvas, and allowing the figurative into my work.
Acrylic, pencil, graphite and linen on canvas, 2023, 100 x 100 x 5cm
detail of the edge of the unbleached fine linen.
detail of some of the words written onto this painting.