Now just to back-track a little and to give you a better understanding of how my work has developed since my first 'Limboid', I thought it only fair to highlight some significant precursors to the road which lead me to enrolling on my BA degree course.
1998 was really the beginning of my….., well I want to say decision, but really it was not a decision, more of a psychological whipping to pursue my unconscious desire to become an artist and a painter.
‘In a State of Limbo’ was without question my first pre-professional painting that I had created. The motivation for it was manifold, but most significantly it was a result of being used and abused, the feeling of being coerced into something that you are not. This experience came not only from industrial coercion but emotional coercion too. Dramatic as it sounds, it is true. In the previous post I showed you my first ‘Limboid’, which while being true, it is a painting which I retouched in 2006 due to my negligence in it’s storage. I felt it necessary to re-stretch the canvas and retouch the work after having been stored in my friends loft for three years whilst I was living in Texas, USA.
The primary rendition of the work, I feel compelled to show you, as it shows you a pre-educated painting, and as a side benefit, you can see that my 2006 re-working, which I feel, somehow reveals how I tightened up my grasp of tonal understanding. The original whilst being somewhat naïve, does in my perception, have a solid composition, but was lacking in a knowledge of physical painting practice which I compensated for in the retouching of the work in 2006.
