This painting is somewhere between my two Parallel project painting focuses as it it is neither a dilapidated building in a landscape or a close of machinery presented in a semi abstract manner. As such I am undecided as to whether it should be considered as part of my submission for Assessment.

The topic for this painting is somewhere in between. The subject is self explanatory, it is the bolted door on a building. In this particular case it is a farm building but it could just as easily be a commercial building or a garden shed. What attracted me to this image was the question of whether it is locked to keep us out or something in. This question is not answered, just proposed. It is the dark interior hiding behind the fixed bolt which suggests intrigue. I painted this in a pictorial manner to prevent the scene becoming too ambiguous.

The painting:

• Parallel Project