Save the Date!

        FRIDAY 16th & SATURDAY 17th DECEMBER 2022

                      at The Studio, 82 Westholme Road, IP1 4HQ

 

 

 

 

 

 

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New look for the Studio... new era for me!

 So... I had the last class with my lovely students a couple of weeks ago. Oh, it has been great watching them all develop their confidence and expression, but now it's time to part - I need to have my studio to myself to move my own work on.

I like to work thematically, often in paint, or other mixed media or charcol, but I like making little videos and also time based pieces.

For a few years now, I have been developing my "Aquarium of Dreams" project. Gathering ideas and filming pieces. It's going to be an immersive experience... and of course I will try it out in the studio.

I also hold little pop up gigs there from time to time. So, I decided to paint the studio walls black.

                                                                             It begins...

                                                                  No going back...

                                                                         TAH DAH!!!
It feels like being in a charcol drawing or an Anselm Kiefer painting.

You can see how this end will be a fab performance space, the audience will be at little tables, like a speakeasy.

This was how we set it up last time... 

I'll let you know how it all progresses.

 

I have re-worked the Pandemic, Fates large painting...

This is it now!

 The painting had been in the cupboard all year and it niggled away in my brain..

While it was very lovely and etherial, it wasn't really what I had intended; it didn't have the emotion I wanted. 

The reworking begain... Oooo I was brutal. Though I did like some of the various experiments inbetween.

 

Anyway, I ended up with this at the moment.

 

Here are some close ups... 

Clotho the spinner (fire) detail

Here is work I have been doing this year.

 I have still been working on the gaze between model and artist. 

Also, how the invisable space around us is displaced as we move through it.

                                           Talking Head, oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm

                                             Looking At You Looking At Me, oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm

                                                    Grey Dress, oil on canvas 50 x 100 cm

                                           Black Space Moving, oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm

                                                  Space Moving, oil on canvas, 50 x 100cm

                                           White Space Moving, oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm

                                          Red Socks, oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm

                                                        Something Unknown Encroaches, oil on canvas, 40 x 120 cm

                                        Alice Through The Lap Top, oil on canvas, 40 x 70 cm

Lastest Commision

 Off to it's new home...

In my mind the painting is called            Karaoki Moon

 

The Fates - Pandemic

 I have been working on this, The Fates - Pandemic. It's very large, 130cm x 170cm. Oil on canvas with mixed media, (plaster and thread). 

The Fates or Moirai – are a group of three weaving goddesses who assign individual destinies to mortals at birth. 

Consistently portrayed as three women spinners, each of the three Fates had a different task, revealed by her very name: Clotho (the Spinner), spun the thread of life, Lachesis (the Alloter), measured its allotted length, and Atropos (the Inflexible) cut it off with her shears. Sometimes, each of the Fates was assigned to a specific period of time: More details here. https://www.greekmythology.com/Other_Gods/The_Fates/the_fates.html

I have also loosly incorperated the elements, fire(Clotho), Earth (Lachesis) and Water (Atropos).

Here are some close ups.

 

 

Endless

                                             Endless 170 x 130cm oil on canvas

 This very large painting is a development of a piece I made last year, (isolation; emotional toll,)

I used the same image and flipped it, which created a different feeling in the viewer. It is a very large canvas but the figure is the same size as in the previous piece. The figure and background are quite thickly painted and there are areas of texture which is to represent the fabric or the painting, and the world being riped and torn but more of the same is revealed.