5.3.13
I’ve now reached the tricky bit, making final decisions and pulling the composition together. Today I’ve been working with the child figures, tomorrow will be the turn of the army of Lilliputians.
As with any painting I need to be sure that the composition has reached its peak before I can allow it to leave the studio, it’s very irritating to find a painting at a later date with a weakness that was overlooked and which should have been repainted, and this one is destined for a public space. As George Orwell might say, I must be certain it is doubleplusgood. However, working on such a large scale and unable to view the composition as a whole until it is erected above the entrance of the building, I have to admit to feelings of trepidation, which is ungood. Now is the time when belief in myself and trust in previous experience, combined with my love of the cinema, needs to play its part.
Perhaps reassurance can be found within the film ‘Shakespeare in Love’ by recalling the conversation between Phillip Henslowe and Hugh Fennyman…………(for ‘theatre’ read ‘mural’)
Henslowe: Mr. Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
Fennyman: So what do we do?
Henslowe: Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well.
Fennyman: How?
Henslowe: I don’t know. It’s a mystery.
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