After having various 1 to 1 tutorials with the artists Nick Goss and Danny Rolff my understanding of my own practice shifted and I feel much happier for it. It has been more this issue of authorship than anything else, my choice of photographic images can come from many sources but how I translate or re-imagine them is the part that’s altered. The disconnect I sometimes felt with the image has now shifted into a more positive sense of inclusion and validity, I am part of the contemporary art conversation, I can allow myself to paint what and how I want, I do not have to justify why I chose yellow or why the perspective is not natural, it is the colour or perspective I wanted to use and that is justification enough. This shift is obviously incumbent of my own personal psychology and few people will see benefit other than through my output but internally I feel this is a seminal moment in my artistic education, so I publicly thank Nick and Danny.
Michael Palmer 