I’d bought some special grey pigments and some pearlescent chalks to add in so I experimented with them in this painting. There is colour, I added one blue and one brown to the off whites and blacks. I don’t know if all this comes across but it was tricky to paint as the pigments were fairly transparent and took layers to build up. In this pair, exceptionally, I chose to make one image slightly larger than the other. It’s the only one like that in the series.

 — Andrew Grassie, 2020