44 Fanlight

The fanlight is on a former chapel on Well Street. The building was neglected for years, empty when I first came to Buckingham in 1992 and remaining so until it became the Garage restaurant after extensive renovations.

There’s a steep, upward perspective in this painting. The curved arch of the fanlight takes up most of of the width. The window below is marked with regimental precision, softened by mottled watercolour. Another disruption on the left, a straggly line meets an indistinct jumble of lines. Electrical cables bundled to keep them tidy and out of the way. There’s no reflection in the glass, the sky was cloudy in the solid grey manner typical of English weather.

Above the brickwork is vaguely suggested but not clearly. There are a few marks, which could be windows, it’s hard to tell.

Blown ink trails of Prussian blue mark the curve of the arch and base of the fanlight. At the bottom resides a dark, cavernous shape. The entrance itself is hard to define at this angle. Comprising of solid blackness broken by inky scribbles. Layered on top of a salted watercolour and ink which has broken into softer, mottled shades with hints of pinks and greens.