When I started putting this website together I thought what order do I display the paintings?
Chronologically was a possibility, (2022-2025) but any visitors aren't going to go through every piece, and I didn't want them wasting time on things I wasn't fully happy with. Then I thought do I group them by size?
In the end I've decided to split the paintings into groups of 20, the first here being ones that I think are successful (regardless of size) and were important in my development. That's not saying I think any less of some of the works on pages 2-4 (4 probably has some I will revisit and paint over), it's just that they have to be in some kind of order and this is it.
'The man of talent is like a marksman who hits a mark others cannot hit; the man of genius is like a marksman who hits a mark they cannot even see to.'
Arthur Schopenhauer (on the overuse of the word 'genius.') The World as Will and Representation 1886