Crook o Lune A painting by Rob Miller RSA

Crook O lune
Acrylic on canvas
50cmx50cm

More finishing touches to this work, trying to bring more depth and create a wider range of mid tones so that the water looks like polished glass, yet another footstep on the journey of understanding, which today for me seems to be more about dismantling those barriers, actual, temporal and mental that the painter puts between himself and the process of painting than about anything else, does a painting have to be done in one sitting? why can't I see the obvious? why do question marks not have a semi colan; I bought a book of Samuel Coleridge's poems yesterday in Bowness for £2.99, it was a proper book, hard backed and well printed, his solitude walks poems struck a chord in me, what price poetry;  yes it does, is the answer to the question on a painting in one sitting...because first impressions are the best, look at Constables sketches, Corot's energy in a sketch compared to his salon pieces, Coleridge the poet distills the essence of a poem through a creating process could be quick could take an age, look at  Leonard Cohens perfect poems and songs, each studied, word of meaning hangs on a sentance like a shard of glass or a Purcell note,  look at Jaccottet he writes an essay  almost a book and then over the passage of years distills it into one verse, for poets and painters I think  the saying less is more is only correct  if its said about something that's not about nothing; so go and repaint the canvas so its just enough, no more no less, the problem is more about the barriers presented by the medium than the narration of a poem of light.................