Went to get my husband joggers, shoes with velcro closings and new slippers which are not so worn that another fall down the stairs is highly likely …..
Starting to think about my talk with Joanna Jones for the Sevenoaks Visual Arts forum which Franny Swann has invited us both to do. We will be talking in the Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope gallery, currently showing both or works in “Meeting Room”, perceptively reviewed by David Minton on Interface.
Working very hard in the studio as I have a show coming up – opening on 14 November and PV on 16 November at The Space gallery Folkestone.
The grids in these paintings are drawn freehand – either scratched into the surface or created with thread (raised surface). I’ve been reading “Lines, a brief history” by Tim Ingold and find what he says about the way lines dissolve surfaces really interesting.
The grid paintings started with drawings on Chinese character practice paper, on which one would write the same character again and again, committing the gesture used to write each stroke to memory, and trying to perfect the stroke: repetition as a yearning for perfection.
