His repeated references in painting and sculpture to birds paid homage to the work of Georges Braque. He was at times overshadowed by St Ives contemporaries, perhaps because his willingness to both draw on and acknowledge myriad influences may have slowed the emergence of a distinctive style. "To paint," he said, "is to wait and watch, to try to listen to the picture, to chance a stroke, to hope for the best." The patient, hopeful manner in which he went about his work, returning again and again to the same theme, building up the earthy textures of his paintings, he likened to the ways of a fisherman. Asked about the objects that interested him, he would respond that they were "not the wood, not the tree, but the leaf not the distant view, but the hedge not the mountain, but the stone". This sophistication resided in an artist who was both poetic and intent on discovering simplicity. Breon O'Casey's frequent references to birds paid homage to Braque.
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