Jonathan Anderson, Fountain (no.1), 2012, oil on canvas, 60 × 48 in. (private collection)

The first marks made on this surface were the fountain of light blue oil paint. A representational image was then painted around those initial marks, depicting a fountain in an anonymous garden. There is only one layer of paint but two orders of mark-making: one corresponding to the flatness of the canvas and one corresponding to the pictorial volume of the garden.