Greig Leach

The fun part of painting live (or as close to it as possible) is that I can only get what is going on by what I see when the camera man catches it. So, as I painted this, I was assuming that Jasper Philipsen (Aplecin-Deceuninck) had been tailed off of the peloton and was looking at a long hard day trying to make the time limit. But no, he was actually chasing back to the main peloton after having a wheel change. What is the old saying about assuming? I love the feeling this evokes. The thought of being out riding on a wide-open road with mountains lurking on the horizon. Well, maybe not the impending mountains part.