Robert Diamant

You just said it's the land that you know, and it's the place you know.

But obviously when you make a painting, even though it's rooted in the truth and in a place that you know, they actually become something else.

And there's this kind of construction or invention in painting.

And I find it interesting if you think of a landscape painting in that term.

Wow.

And you hold each one for the season so that you can see the actual season in front of you.

Well, yeah, of course.

And also light is such a key thing because winter has completely different light, different nature, different flowers, different...

Everything.

That's so interesting.

Would you say you have one season that you prefer most of all?

In these latest works, there's two of them which have sheep.

And I described them as like a river of sheep.

And then you made me realize this because they are actually in the water and they're moving with the current almost kind of running along.

But there's such an understanding of the physicality and the way they move, which is

I've realized having sat here with you today, it's because you've actually worked on farms.

And you know how they move.

So that's really interesting.

If you think on life drawing, you always think of like people, but actually you seem to have really like nailed this kind of.

I know how animals behave.