Couldn't stand the oil pastels. The so easily break into pieces that can't be removed without smudging the drawing. Fairly happy with the basic image. Found it very, very hard to lay down layers with oil pastels
Research point: “Find out about Ben Nicholson. Why does he simplify still life forms and negative space and superimpose them on the Cornish landscape?”
Paintings from the 1940s often show landscape observed through a window with still-life elements in the window. Nicholson was an abstract painter usually. Moved to Cornwall after the start of World War 1. When he first came to Cornwall, he was busy working on reliefs and carvings.
People like Christopher Neve believe that landscape by itself has no meaning. Thus he believe that to paint it as it is would create a work without meaning. There has to be something of the artist's feeling in it – or so he believed.
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