The Secret
Struggling to finish this painting for an exhibition deadline next week. The frustrating thing at the moment is that none of the different areas of the image are resolved, nothing is truly finished, even the simplest forms are crying out for more paint. Today I realised that I didn’t like the way the cat’s spine was echoing the curve of the girl’s back and decided to move the cat over so it was wedged in the corner of the canvas, which was actually the original intention.
Helen Hopcroft: an artist's life 