Tube Entrance, Winter Evening 1998

Leon Kossoff made this painting, *Tube Entrance, Winter Evening*, with oil on board. It’s thick with paint, almost sculptural, a testament to process. Look at how Kossoff builds up the surface, each stroke a visible record of his engagement with the scene. The colors are muted, earthy – browns, grays, creams – but somehow still luminous. You can almost feel the damp chill of a London evening. It's a kind of controlled chaos. Take, for example, the figures huddled near the entrance; they’re barely defined, yet their presence is palpable, rendered with just a few swipes of the brush. Kossoff's work reminds me of Frank Auerbach's, they both share that commitment to the materiality of paint and a willingness to embrace ambiguity. It's a reminder that art isn't about perfect representation, but about capturing a feeling, a moment, a fleeting glimpse of the world around us.