11.4.24

This was painted the day after yesterday's photograph. I don't paint from photographs but let the experience of what I have witnessed and felt out in the elements sit for a while before making a painting from memory. It's a re-enactment of sorts yet inside the studio where it's warm and dry. The emotions of the experience seem keen to rush out and remind me how it actually felt out there in the elements. I hope the viewer will somehow pick up on the rawness of that day and partly sense how it was to be there