I found this canvas collage last Monday in a tube in the studio. I’d forgotten I’d made it, it’s over 20 years old. It came from me chopping up an old painting of mine and stitching the parts together in a different way by hand. I collaged other papers on there too. I sometimes do radical things like this. I had to take the canvas off it’s stretcher for storage purposes. It was a large painting of a waterfall loosely based on Stanley Falls in Eskdale in the Lakedistrict Cumbria. I’m exploring all sorts of things through this relating to painting, relationships and my state of mind. It was massively cathartic. I have a strange connection, or lack of it, with my work once made, it becomes or can become something else so it had better watch out! It’s all part of the flow. On the good side it means I can let go of work easily to good homes, this makes room for the new.