STAGE I

Clitheroe Street at Night, colour crayon on a heavy duty paper, size: 42 / 60 cm

It meant to be a painting, I picked up the crayons to sketch just basics. Those colour crayons gave me enormous joy and soon I was taken over by the medium, fascinated with lines, texture, colour and expression of every pencil stroke. I liked it at first, then I felt it lacked some substance.

STAGE II

Clitheroe Street at Night, colour crayon and enamel on a heavy duty paper. Size: 42 / 60 cm Price for unframed picture £75

Clitheroe Street at Night,

colour crayon and enamel on a heavy duty paper.

Size: 42 / 60 cm

Price for unframed picture £75

So I took an enamel paint, and with the help of a craft knife I have added blue, white and black liquid strokes, and with those strokes I have released the power and depth of a night, contrasted against blinding headlights of a car passing by, so dazzling that everything seems to be swallowed by those lights as they penetrate the darkness…