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This is my painting which I have in an exhibition coming up next month.   This was the painting that gave me an idea about the series. It is a painting of the main bridge over the river which flows from Wicklow town into the sea 

 I had a visitor to studio a  couple weeks ago who pointed out that my painting  looked great in a photograph but not so hot in reality.  This is not what I want. 

I realised that I had spent so much time trying to get the arches the correct size that I gave no attention to the tone of the bridge and when I darkened it it made it dramatically better.  

I also know if the tone of the painting is right, you can get away with anything regarding the colour 

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nd it struck me that’s the very same with what you say I’m always saying to people who are afraid of insulting me as a disabled person that if the tone is correct it doesn’t matter what you say  people have said the most stupidest things to me, but I know they’re meant well and that makes all the difference. 

So, paintings like life.  It’s all about the tone.