Little Gidding

Art Description:

In the process of creating gestural abstraction sometimes images emerge by chance. It was only after I hung this painting, first at the studio then at home, that I saw a seated figure. A ghost composed of ribbons of writhing paint. The title Little Gidding refers to T.S.Eliot's poem from The Four Quartets;
"If you came at night like a broken king,
If you came by day not knowing what you came for,
It would be the same, when you leave the rough road
And turn behind the pig-sty to the dull facade
And the tombstone. And what you thought you came for
Is only a shell, a husk of meaning
From which the purpose breaks only when it is fulfilled
If at all. Either you had no purpose
Or the purpose is beyond the end you figured
And is altered in fulfilment. There are other places
Which also are the world's end, some at the sea jaws,
Or over a dark lake, in a desert or a city—"

Medium Used: Pastel on paper