I built this oil painting up using my usual painting process of layering abstract and representational forms. Inspired by social occasions and night time in London, it captures different memories and scenes merged together with a combination of translucent and opaque painting.  This painting expands my typical use of materiality (which alternates between transparent impasto, thin translucent painting and opaque forms) by introducing iridescent gold areas inspired by the use of gold in icons and work by Giotto and other mediaeval artists.

The painting is on extra fine canvas stretched onto wooden bars so has a smooth finish (apart from areas of impasto) with very little grain showing. It is predominantly traditional oil paint with an addition of iridescent paint (gold areas).