Taith Tren is part of the Light Series of paintings. It was a journey home from Cardiff where I’d been looking at contemporary art in an exhibition at the museum. All that creativity had got my mind working and questioning what was outside the tren (train).  As I stared out I began to observe more and more within thanks to the dark moving back-drop outside. Unlike my sports and fair paintings I am moving rather than my subject.

How were those circular marks made? Who made them? How does that dirty film cling on? The window has it’s stories but does not shed any light on them. Peering into the darkness there were flickers of lights. Dog-walkers and cyclists weaving along the paths. Flashes of reflected lights in water from head torches of fishermen, bike-lights and the slip of moon.

Once the acrylic paint layers had dried I wanted to make the painting appear just like that dirty train window. I
uses three layers of resin which gives a hard and shiny finish to the piece. It also enabled me to work into the layers to add the ‘oily’ film that the window had in places. So the surface of the painting purposefully not pristine (but is waterproof and sealed).

Image: 40 x 40 x 1 cm canvas on shallow stretchers. The image goes slightly around the edge. There is resin all around the edges.
Ready to Hang: D-rings and hanging cord attached.