I have been watching the extra’s for the Hobbit and one of the things I found amazing was that the film was only ‘finished’ on the morning of the world premiere – long gone are the days of having to make prints on ‘real’ film. In one sense this painting of Tom Cruise is finished and yet it isn’t and I suspect I’ll never know when it is finished – like everything else I do. Months, maybe years latter I’ll come back to work on it. Still if it is good enough for Titian who am I to argue.

Simon Marchini
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