Clive Barker: “The Sea Comes to Chickentown, which we know the moment of obviously. I wanted to paint something I’d never really tried before, which was to paint a relatively realistic picture of a wave breaking – which is sort of hard to do, I found! And I realised that I couldn’t do my usual thing of painting under-layers – the water had to be transparent, or near-transparent which means I could only get one layer of colour on it – does that make sense?

"So this is a painting made of two colours, blue and white, with just a little bit of green in there as well. There’s only one layer of colour on it as you can see in the physical image – it might be worth taking a closer look at the paper and seeing how little paint there is because this is a piece of pure painting, representational painting. And sometimes less is much, much harder to do than more – and this was a son of a bitch! And I roughed it out first and then I thought I was ready and I wasn’t, and I tried a second time and it came off – I do think you get a sense of that’s a breaking wave.” Link to full interview with Clive.

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