Back from Berlin. What a great time. Walked and walked. We stayed north east of Alexanderplatz, visits included small contemporary galleries and large collections, Guggenheim and Bau Haus Archive.
My work is directly influenced by place and the experience of space. This experience was moving, interesting and invigorating.
In my work I seem to have sense of what’s coming next. The ideas are now queuing up behind the curtain for the next performance. I can’t see them but I know they are there.
Back to the exhibition, 15 days left. There are several important things to do:
1. Evaluate the paintings and consider reworking the couple that are unresolved.
2. Investigate, source and fix ‘Ryman hangers’ for invisible hanging, paintings have to be screwed to the wall, for insurance purposes.
3. Write press release and complete e-invite send out.
I am now relocated, and packed into my studio shed, It does feel rather like working in a cupboard!
The assessment was positive and helpful. The contents of my studio space were loaded and unloaded, with ideas about the changes I might make to some of the paintings before the show, running through my thoughts.
They will have to wait as tonight I pack my bag for the Fine Art four study trip, to Berlin. Leaving tomorrow morning. Fantastic!
Well, the lemon yellow went on and half an hour later was washed off with turps and re- glazed with a mixed rose pink. This now reverberates on top of the orange made from layers of yellow and pink.
I have had an excellent double space this year in the studio, I have loved working there and feel bereft at leaving it. The dividing walls will be taken down on Thursday for the degree show build. It too is a virtual space. The last wash of colour today is a signifier that the purpose of this blog will soon be completed.
As artists are often ‘working in advance of their understanding’ (see post no.4), the new ideas are there, incubating under the surface. I can’t yet articulate, but do anticipate.
Studio time will end tomorrow. I have one more opportunity to paint one more layer. Lemon yellow i sense.
Wednesday 10 am, is my level 5 assessment, and the end of the third year. The luxury of studying part time is the distance this can bring between, ideas and actions. I can now see patterns emerging in my choices and decision making. At the time I considered them to be either random or well thought out, for other reasons. I am seeing links and connections. Fluency developing in the language.
I am trying to prepare myself for the feelings I experience after an assessment, during the waiting period until the written feedback. Assessments are not tutorials.
Preparations for the exhibition are nearly complete, invites are on they way out. It will be a courageous act on my part to show the work if the assessment doesn’t go well! Perhaps I’ll save reading the feedback until August
Preparations of a different type are underway for Thursday…..
