New houses, Ury East Coast of Scotland every year they'd grow daffodils

every year they'd grow daffodils in the field

About surface and pattern

so the urge to borrow Basquiat’s freedoms and reintroduce these iconic figures into my own painting was too strong to resist and I found that I revelled in the expressive licence he allowed himself

but more a memory of it… a place half-seen

New houses, Ury East Coast of Scotland every year they'd grow daffodils20 x 20 cm Having lived on Ury Estate for many years, Ive seen the place change in ways that gradually become part of the familiar view. This painting is about that newer layer of the estate the houses gathered together in a cluster, still settling into the surrounding landscape