This is the journey of “Acrobats and Flowers”, one of the oil paintings in my solo show currently on view at John Martin Gallery in London. I got really into painting these black linear shapes on a red canvas but ended up painting over it in the end. It gave me the idea of painting vertical lines as a central feature, and this is the canvas that absorbed that idea. The direction of most of my canvases changes a few times as a painting evolves, but I liked the height of that dark line and the expanse of the space behind it, so I allowed it to stayed that way.

Acrobats and Flowers I oil on canvas I 150 x 120 cm