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Keith always begins a piece with a charcoal sketch onto a pre-coloured cotton canvas, concentrating on balance and composition before he starts to paint. He keeps a very large mirror behind him and glances over his shoulder regularly to check things out from a different angle. His application of paint is very rapid and he uses a palette of only five colours. He says: “It is bold confident brush work that makes things work for me - once I slow down and start picking at the work I know that fundamentally the image is finished and it is at this moment that I start to hear my father in my head shouting “Stop - leave it alone!”. Chatterbox original by Keith Proctor