Studio days are flying by and I find it hard to believe it is almost a month since the last post.
My work reflects my interest in my sensory responses to the experience of walking through cities, particularly London and New York. These opportunities give way to a freedom of expression of feeling and thought which is felt. Connecting visual and kinetic information through paintings and drawings of layered line and colour within an improvised geometry, re-enacts the pleasure of the movement and observation of the city avenue.
Much like the act of walking and looking and moving forward I constantly want to find myself in a different place with the painting. I need each time painting to be an experience that has physical progression. I look at the paintings made several months ago and they seem to be from a completely different time zone. Something about my process makes it almost impossible to see or remember how they were made. I unwrapped several today to photograph them and they always surprise me. In the way that we sometimes write things we never expected to or how we look back at blog entries and see ourselves from a different vantage point. From the other side. Photographs of my paintings never really capture the effect of the transparent layers, it flattens them and dulls the light, they need to be seen; is that what it means for them to become a place?
The short statement above is from the degree show catalogue that we are putting together. I have a longer one to write, I have six paintings underway, catalogue and invites to finalise, drawings to get to the framers, doccumentation to edit.
Two weeks until the show build begins.
