I am feeling my way carefully through this transitional process. Despite feeling anxious and even a bit panicky about my work directly after group critique…..I feel I am beginning to find a new direction with my work. After presentation, I felt totally demoralised as I felt I wasnt understood by tutors. I am looking at Cecily Brown, Frank Aurebach, Elmer Bischoff and Ursula O Farrell for inspiration. I think that perhaps my termonology wasnt correct in my presentation. I am interested in figurative expressionism, but somewhere I have got caught up in painting in a style that is too representative and want to try and break out of the restrictions this brings me in expressiveness. Thought I had made this clear in my presentation, but from the questions that followed there seemed to be confusion as to why I hadnt painted in this style before. However, I have only come to this realisation in the last few weeks….. Painting I did in Robin’s ‘life painting’ classes. I like the looseness of this painting and the colours and textures.
