Figure paintings

 

  90cm x 90cm, oil on canvas

 

                                               90cm x 90cm, oil on canvas

 

                                               90cm x 90cm, oil on canvas

 120cm x 150cm, oil on canvas

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                                               90cm x 90cm, oil on canvas

                                                  100cm x 100cm, oil on canvas

                                      

I have always worked from the model as part of my practice.  I like the subtle changes of light, the delicacy of tones, the tiny observations that build the drawing or painting. When exploring gestural poses I like the rapid marks that capture the immediacy and dynamic of the form. 

                                             90cm x 90cm, oil on canvas

 Weekly for three or four years, often with other artists joining me in the studio, I worked with the same model, Blue King.
Her input was integral to the body of work I have built exploring the figure. Sensitive to the direction of my work, the energy of her poses reflects and informs this   

                                                                   

   

                                 Triptych on blue; each painting 100cm x 80cm, oil on canvas

.Working from the same model meant I have been able to go beyond the “what does she look like” part.  Still rooted in the figurative, the representational,  I also could explore mood, form, expression, application of paint, scale, and the relationship between the figure and the space around her.

       Triptych  each painting 100cm x 80cm, oil on canvas

 

                       
                                            90cm x 90cm, oil on canvas

 

  120cm x 150cm, oil on canvas

                                               A conversation with Blue King and Annabel Mednick