Sorry for the delay since my last post. I have started my residency, and have been busy making new work for the last couple of weeks. It all seems to be going well.
Before I started at the school, I decided I would pop over to the Tate Modern to see the Cy Twombly retrospective and pick up some inspiration, it was something that I had been meaning to do all Summer, so it was good to finally go and see some big paintings. I'm a fan of his work, and I think I really enjoyed the show, but it also really stressed me out for some reason. Whenever I go to see work of this calibur I always seem to worry about my own work and panic that I'm not as good/will never be as good and I always feel inadequate, which I know is a really silly way to feel, but there you go. It was good to see the show and I'm glad I went.
But yes, it's been a good 9 days, and everyday seems to be a little better than the last which is nice. I've agreed to put some work around the school next week, so I've been rushing together 4 new paintings for that. It's nice to have a bit of pressure to paint to, I have to make decisions quicker and act on my instincts with the materials. It really makes a difference spending everyday in the studio as opposed to the scattered working pattern that I had before. The new work that I'm doing now is my 'adjustment phase' work, it's all a bit random and is kind of a mix of what I was doing earlier earlier this year, but using mainly drawing techniques as I mentioned in my last post. Two of these pieces have translucent surfaces, which are working well with charcoal and oil sticks, it's a really 'fast' surface.
I asked myself a question in my last post, along the lines of 'Why am I trying to add a 3d element to my work?' I'll add that I plan to start this mini project next week, and that it will still be wall based, so quite 2d, but with an object feel to it. It looks great in my head. The work is all about boundaries and passing through layers which I intend to convey by the use of mark making, fragmentation and constructed pictorial spaces. So that's my idea for a starting point.
