David Bowie died on 10 January 2016. That evening I stayed in the studio and painted. Not to make a body of work, just to do something with the news rather than sit with it.
Five canvases came out of that night and the days around it. Each one is the same gesture repeated, a wide circling motion returned to again and again until the paint stands off the surface, thick and wet, greens and pinks and yellows piled into a rough spiral.
They were still drying on the studio floor the next morning. I had not planned any of it. It was just where the evening went.
Part of the David Bowie case study.