Eynsham Gods

Drawing is a strange process for me. One part recording, one part meditation time, the eternal process of mark making and finally the deepening of memory.

Colour of Music’ still continues but at times I forget what I was planning here. I am looking for paint in full thickness and clear colour. I am finding this a challenge but need to explore other ways of using colour

Drawing at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford again. Drawing statues are a great way of remembering what you have seen.

Well the exhibition for my door series is approaching. So my son came with his big camera and did the quality photography that these canvases needed. These paintings are to be hung in a block according to the rainbow spectrum of colours. It was the first time I had seen them placed in the planned order. They do become something special when seen like this. it would be nice if they were sold as a complete series but reality is that the canvases will be sold individually. I spent hours sweating the ‘artist statement’ to go with them. I tried to make it personal and reflect the short answer I would give to a client/viewer. I confess that I do not know if it makes sense now.

‘Artist Statement’

The village of Eynsham is my inspiration. I enjoy painting in series. This could be little as two paintings or like the ‘Eynsham Doors’ series which includes 21 paintings and is my largest to date. My starting concept was to produce a body of work based upon the individual doors seen in my part of Eynsham. I decided that this work was to be both allegorical as well as representational.

When white light is refracted in a rainbow it separates into a continuous spectrum of colour that is traditionally divided into the bands of colour known as red, orange, yellow, green blue indigo and violet. Eynsham is the white light divided into panels which are themed on rainbow colours. The colour strategies of each panel is tempered by it’s underlying colour. On an individual basis these doors are an expression of the boundary between private and public space but grouped here without the bounds of geography they have become something glorious.

Since graduating in 2000 with a 2.1 B.A. honours degree in illustration and graphic design I have been a freelance artist, graphic designer and illustrator.

I am thinking of entering this drawing of my grand-daughter for the
‘Threadneedle Prize’. What do you think?