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 What I love about "Stratford Mill", also known as "The Waltonians" - with the little boys fishing here in the front of the composition - is the way in which it suddenly started to occur to me last year [in 2003] that as I stood here, like this figure, on the roof of Somerset House - this could be the edge of King's College, this could be the Electra building, this tree here could be Saint Paul's, this would obviously have the Nat West tower etc.
But that composition there, with the water here and the field here, could be the Thames, and it was just the way the forms suggested... the march of these trees into the painting was like the march of the buildings into the two huge canvases I've made from the roof.
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