I received an inbox from someone asking for another photo of this piece, possibly to check if the colours were true. Sadly I replied unaware that I then wouldn’t be able to find out who sent me the message!! Anyway here is an un-edited photograph of thepainting taken with a cannon slr in manual mode under continuous lighting.
Photo of my piece Mummy from the Weights and Measures exhibition on in Leeds at East Street Arts. Really nice to see it from directly above, the idea behind this piece is not spent yet. I’m thinking of doing it while lying inside anoutfit a bit like this,then maybe getting out dressed in a tux at the end of the evening! ahaha. I think that would add to the power of the piece somehow, even if people only found out about it afterwords.
For some reason I always seem to loosen up towards the end of a project. Some of my pages from around now involve making marks and reflecting what’s going on around me or anidea simply for the joy of doing it.
sketches done at the eden project when on holiday with my family
again helped me get back into that making making, not always thinking mindset
My work in Budapest started to get more hands on and material as I was more relaxed and doing work just for myself and my own pleasure
A work in progress at the moment. Painting has fallen to the back burner at the moment, it feels less compelling than performance or sculpture at the moment. However it is where I develop much of my imagery and is historically the basis of my practice, I intend to finish this soon.
This is a collaboration that took place between myself and Rufus this February. We each had free reign to do whatever we wanted to the canvas, and decided to stop when it was done. This helped bost my boldness and lack of preciousness, I could not afford to be precious!!! All in all was a nice celebration of marks and very soothing
I was getting very into my diagrams for a time. Trying to find ways to arrange knowledge visually, the problem was that lot of the work that I produced in this time was actually quite , boring, required reading. This led on to me questioning if it was for an art audience, if I should even be in art, and getting way too hung up on all of this, forgetting why I do it. All in all a very interesting theme, but perhaps I shouldn’t move quite so far from my home ground, as that created an artistic block in this case.
With new materials from London, cas arts. Using Pro-markers for the first time.
This is all up to February, I was working in the sketchbook quite a lot at this time. Partly as I was waiting for canvases to be stretched etc. I think I used doing work in it partly asan excuse not to escape ut of it. I was going to try and do a neat sketchbook at first. But then it gradually descended into my usual mess. I think sometimes you’ve got to admit to yourself how you work best, and neatness always seems to lead to tightness and almost messier work in my practice.
