Tilting at Windmills Exhibition
Tom Ranahan invited me to take part in Tilting at Windmills exhibition. This painting, Once More, is my response. It draws on repetition, obsession, and the quiet persistence of belief. A return, again and again, to something just out of reach, held between conviction and collapse.
Once More
Oil on linen canvas
90 × 122 cm
£1981
Once More responds to “tilting at windmills” as a psychological state rather than a literal scene. The figure rides forward, yet there is no horse beneath him. The work sits in the tension between belief and reality, where conviction overrides logic. Hints of armour appear, but they feel symbolic rather than functional. This is not a portrait of heroism, but of endurance. It speaks to the human tendency to hold onto belief, even when reality contradicts it.
Once More
10 Limited edition prints available in shop
20 x 16
£125 each