I have lost count of the times that Chips has painted then repainted The Boxer. Finally, he is happy enough to hang it on the wall at home.
There has been much experimentation in trying to create smaller versions of his idiosyncratic dot paintings. Chips' recent paintings have been much admired but all to often we have been told that they are too big and can he scale them down for a more realistic size of wall? So he did; Paradoxically, it takes more dots to make the small portrait than it did to make one twice the size. It took a lot of time to get the result that he wanted but I think it was worth it.
Just after the smaller version of The Boxer was displayed a friend saw it and thought it perfect for one of his clients, so it may not be in our guest room for long. "Only thing is' he says, "Could you paint a larger one if needed...it's for very big wall."
Helen.
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