The original sketch for this piece emphasised over-lapping ‘doors’ with a panelappearing to sit on top of them all and the latest stage of this painting begins to achieve that. The door to the bottom left-hand corner edge pins the panel through its middle. The right-hand door that covers most of the rest of the composition contains the panel ‘whole’. The ‘base’ underneath both doors appears in the top-right, and just a hint in the bottom-right corners too. So, structurally, and formally it remains very strong for me. The black panel is very dominating at the moment, especially given the subtlety of the colour on the doors, yet is pleasing at the same time and presents me with the issue of ‘how can I improve this’/’can this be improved’? when I next address the piece… |