Tag: process
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Piranesi, Escher, and Jeremy Bentham walk into a bar….
I finished a couple of little paintings last week: The starting point for them was some collage work that I made when I was planning the exhibition earlier this year. I think they are perfectly OK paintings, but what is interesting is that I also feel like I’ve moved on from them almost as soon…
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The weather of painting
So, this summer has been pretty stop-start in the studio. That’s fair enough. I took some time off, I did some teaching on the Summer School at work, and there has, to be honest, been a significant amount of indolence. I’m also trying to get used to working in the studio without a plan or…
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Non-corporate work streams
I’ve been back in the studio for a couple of weeks now and need to get back into the habit of posting regularly. More importantly, I’m trying to change the way I approach my studio time. One of the things this course has made painfully obvious is how much I rely on deadlines. Give me…
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Experiments #4
I got a bit of time in the studio today, which was nice. It’s the end of the year at work and the terminal exhibitions are taking up a lot of my time, so being in the studio feels especially precious at the moment. I’m also conscious that I’m going on holiday for a fortnight…
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Spectrum
A long train journey back from London tonight. I am glad that I made the trip down. I could have posted the paintings, or asked Jonathan to print them for me, but I was lucky enough to have the time available to go in person. I am trying to take every opportunity to learn something…
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Experiments #3
Loads more work-in-progress shots. I’m having fun in the studio at the moment, rattling between lots of different canvases. Of course, these canvases are tiny [20 x 30 cm], so it feels pretty easy and low stakes to mess around with them. It would be interesting to scale the process up at some point and see…
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Experiments #2
So, my plan has already gone a bit off-piste! I had said that I wasn’t going to use the small canvases straight away, but that’s exactly what I’ve ended up doing. I’ve been trying to work out what to make for the Tavistock exhibition. I’m going down to London that week, so I can take…
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Experiments #1
I intend to make a group of small paintings over the next couple of months. To prepare for this, I have spent the last few weeks getting surfaces ready. I now have an assortment of primed card and paper, canvas boards and small stretched canvases to work on. I probably won’t use the canvases in…
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Words
So, I’m still not entirely convinced by my study statement. I don’t think it is wrong exactly, and I don’t think I’m completely barking up the wrong tree, but I do have a growing suspicion that I have tried to over-academicise the whole thing. I have spent a lot of time trying to give the…
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Interim show
I used the interim show to test an idea I had been returning to on and off for some time. Collage plays a significant role in my practice: I often use it as a research tool or as source material for paintings and prints. At times I also make more sculptural collages, though in the…