Rats and Goats (2023, 40x50)

A friend commissioned a painting with the following instructions: rats, goats, no red.

 

The painting was not for him, but for someone else I didn’t know. Creating a world for a known person is certainly easier, it allows me to more confidently include elements that are tuned in or tunable to them.

 

I therefore experienced a fair amount of performance anxiety in the realisation!

 

Rats, goats and mushrooms have now settled in Scotland.