Painting: alive and live

Octopuses, namely their ability to change skin colour, was the focus of my very first conversation with Bruce McLean, who taught me painting at the Slade. Octopuses were relevant then, and they are relevant now, here. Like octopuses, painting is similarly mutable. The medium continues to undergo change and evolves. It is alive!

Commissioned Catalogue Essay for 'Fully Awake: 5.6', A Teaching Painting project hosted by Freelands Foundation, London.