Looking at Paintings

What do we see when we look at paintings ? What unknown chemistry is in the image that draws the viewer across the room to look more closely ? If we could only bottle it and bring it out more often . Quite often my least favourite painting is the first to sell at a show and I end up with my favourites unsold. Harvest Headland, one of my limited editions , outsells all other images by a factor of at least 10 . If anybody knows why this is please let me know…

March 2018