Posting ‘divine lake come autumn’, which had been posted some six months ago, as closer to being finished than ever, which speaks as much to how we work, something we never felt any need to write about, as we

Assume that every artist goes thru this, in some sense work at the studio is never really finished until it is. While we are always working out new ideas or, ideas new to us many pieces are ‘finished but not’, and until it is ‘finished but yes’, they get shelved, and for example, when some things are drying, we pull out an finished unfinished piece at the studio, pop it up on an easel, discuss and make any changes which bring it closer to being finished, let it dry and put it back on the shelf;

We liked the earlier posting of ‘divine lake come autumn’ thinking it done, and yet pulling it out and looking at it again this week made a small change to it in which removes the last question mark for us.

Although we don’t paint to post, (the idea makes no sense whatsoever), If you scroll through our page and see winter followed by water reflections followed by something else, so while it may seem disconnected or all over the place, it becomes obvious that our posts have nothing to do with the current season, nor even subject / idea wise because our posts offer a mix of new work being posted interspersed with ongoing work that has taken its own time to be held up as finished which is our only requirement for posting. So work started in december may get posted in august as well as the work started and finished in august We think in some ways this way of posting ideas when they are ‘finished’ shows a diversity of ideas that keeps our page interesting and fresh.