"How do we go about painting? Is there a process that produces a successful painting? What is a successful painting? What do we want to accomplish when we set out to do a painting - something that has no manifest usefulness to help define success?
Do we set goals and then accomplish them? Do we plan and then execute a painting? Or do we just fly free and hope for the best? Or maybe one could learn the skills and then practice?

The process of working on a painting is not linear: sometimes it goes well, sometimes it doesn’t.There are always failures, stumbling blocks to overcome, absence of clarity and presence of doubts. Can one learn to deal with these problems? Are they individual or the same for everybody? How did other artists deal with this?

These and many other similar issues form an amorphous field that was never clearly defined, or entirely explored. This is what keeps painting difficult, but it is also what makes it endlessly fascinating. There is no proven method, but we can have a conversation about this and hopefully come out with useful strategies that will result in better paintings".

Alex Kanevsky