Work in progress: Icarus Undone
I’m currently reworking the same 4 canvases experimenting with loser brush strokes and more impasto in an attempt to let the paint ‘speak’. This one is tentatively called ‘Icarus Undone’ (oil on canvas 36 x 24″)
Figures
New Paintings II
New tiny paintings, all 15cm x 15cm, flashe vinyl on canvas board, except the last one (20cm x 20cm acrylic on canvas board).
New Paintings I
These are my latest paintings, all acrylic on canvas board (30cm x 30cm). I’m working hard trying to get some new pieces together for the Take Four group show in Beaumaris which opens this Saturday 14th August. In these pieces I’m focussing on the human figure as sculpture in order to investigate how we use …
New Painting: Self, isolated
New painting: “Self, isolated” (oils and marble dust on wooden panel 61cmx 61cm). Would you believe it’s supposed to be a self portrait? It’s inspired by the Laocoön sculpture and by Picasso’s painting of ‘Woman dressing her hair‘, and is an attempt to sum up the feelings of claustrophobia and depersonalisation brought about by the …
New Painting: Isolation
New painting: Isolation, based on a recent (socially distanced) life drawing (Flashe vinyl on canvas (61cm x 61cm)
New Painting: Evidence of Objects
This is a new painting based on a 2018 painting titled ‘Seated Nude II’, so thinking of calling it ‘Seated Nude II’ (Redux). Whilst painting it I was thinking of a (Wayne Thiebaud?) quote (heard on the Savvy Painter Podcast?); ‘Shadows aren’t objects, but they are evidence of objects’ (or something to that effect). It …
New drawing: Isolation
New drawing: Isolation (charcoal on paper 59cm x 59cm), based on a recent life drawing.
New Painting: The Space Between Us II
This is a new painting based on a recent sketch ‘The Space Between Us II‘. (Acrylic on canvas 83.5cm x 59cm)