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In some sense, making a painting or a poem is the process of imposing the imagination on the world - in Wallace Stevens’s words, ‘the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality’. These paintings are explorations of things, situations and stories in which real, imagined and wished-for significance are on equal terms.
They celebrate the way the fanciful and the far-fetched can have an unexpected resonance, a surprising poignancy, allowing a kind of honesty that is normally inhibited by the need to explain oneself.
A portrait, evocatively named, seen once and once only in the …