It’s been a bit of a strange week- bank holiday, final tutorial, and lots of tying up loose ends. I’m still working on the painting I mentioned last week. I’m pleased with how it’s going but the paint seems to be taking a lot longer to dry than usual, which is frustrating. I just want to get on with it!
As we only have 2 weeks left I don’t really want to start any new paintings, so most of the week has been taken up by the more mundane things like screwing mirror plates on, sticking collages in and writing To Do lists. I was given my own studio space as my area for the show, which I was very pleased about.
The tutorial went really well: I had to put a selection of work on the wall that I was considering showing, and have all my support work there for Virginia to look through. She was excited about the new painting and happy with all my support work, and gave me a few pointers on my artist statement and bits and bobs of different paintings. I love the way she describes bits of my work- “splintered islands” and “dinosaur bones” were notable examples! The next time I’ll see her is when I’m hanging the work. Now just to work out where and how to hang it…
