Canal and Bridge Todmorden - 38

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The painting is of Todmorden Bridge Rochdale Canal. This bridge carries the A6033 over the Rochdale Canal in the centre of Todmorden. The tall building on the left is the Red Lion Pub which I’ve heard is the coolest music venue in Yorkshire. I thought it was a pretty good starting point for a composition for a painting.

Again this painting was an expressive response to the subject and no way was it going to be representational. The painting was reworked a number of times by scraping out and going back into the painting until something happened, I mean, I kept on changing shapes, tonal values and the direction of strokes until something began to emerge which I could work with to make it look like a painting.