With this particiular painting Ian then applied washes of turquiose and green on top of the layers of gilding and acrylic. The finished painting 'Through to Green' is then named and framed.
"Though I had drowned sections of gold in layers of acrylic, they still shine through as you can see from the secondary picture. What has been achieved is something that I could not have planned or rather, something that I planned and then attacked. It is itself."
