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On Green Dolphin Street, Oil on Canvas, 8"x8"
FOR SALE - £80 ono

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I started this painting very shortly after these two, but it was left unfinished when I got ill and, in the way of unfinished projects, hung around for ages waiting for me to get round to it. Which I finally did last week, after issues of canvas-obtaining postponed the start of my next commission and left me with a couple of days and not much to do in them.

I'm not sure I'm going to do many more of these small Women Not Wearing Very Much paintings (or as borusa insists on referring to them, my "Hand Phase") unless there's specific interest - they were intended more as a way of getting me painting no matter what than as actual 'art' (although unlike a lot of people I have no moral issues with the art-as-interior-decorating phenomenon; aesthetics are everything, after all). That said, I had an idea this morning for a lovely little four-part series of white roses which you could hang on a stair case or similar, and I still have all the reference photos I took of Cambridge when I was planning to do a collection of small painted memoirs of the town (rather than the university). All of which would be less of a financial risk than Actual Art, and I'm still poor enough to have to care about such vulgar things as money.

I'm still debating whether to try and sell these on ebay or use them to build up enough of a collection to exhibit. Part of me rebels against the idea of exhibiting anything less than the big, narrative-based, exciting and meaningful paintings I have planned but can't afford to spend time on yet, but common sense suggests that exhibiting anything is better than nothing and if I've spent the time on these paintings (and, indeed, am trying to persuade my friends and acquaintances to buy them) I shouldn't be so quick to disparage them. So perhaps I should just shut up.