Annabel Mednick: Figure paintings

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.