Invitation to View

very true bloodaxe, I can only comment on what I find works, and I try to explain why, but talking about art is like dancing about architecture, as someone once said. I once heard the indefinable gap between the painted image and reality called "slippage", that is where the image becomes painterly and more open to reverie. I just find that, for me, the photographic image limits the slippage as one is more concerned with "getting it right", that is as near to the photo as possible. I happened upon a copy of The Artist in my local Sainsbury's and browsing through it came across an article that was illustrated by a rather elderly couple sitting in chairs and the accompanying painting done from it. The painting was a straight transcription of the photo, with no transformation process visible , it was dull to begin with but made even duller by the painting. I see what you do and the way you manipulate images to produce something fresh and I accept that you are unable to get out as much as you may like but I suspect that for a lot of people, they choose to paint from photos simply because it is easier.