"Notes on a film yet to be made and this is the film" is a solo exhibition at Galerie van Gelder (in AP)
Dog
'Last week I was in the studio when I thought it’s probably about time I tried painting something that wasn’t a horse or pony, of wanting to escape from een self-made trap of painting horses or ponies. I thought about trying a dog, but when I was making it there was something about the nose that stopped me from going further.
There was a piece of paper on the floor that I'd been using as a palette. As an image, it wasn’t bad, so I copied it onto some new canvases. Afterwards I hung them upside down. That looked much better, I thought. I showed this to Kees, the gallerist, who said ‘but you're still painting horses’. I looked, and sure enough, I could see a nose, ears, eyes, mane – a horse, although slightly exploded.' KGH