Ginny Topp Art Space Portsmouth Graduate Residency 2013

Had a wonderful day in the studio today. Up a ladder listening to music (Christmassy and slightly cheesy!) and painting my huge canvas. All very black but I’m happy happy!!! Picked up some paint on the way and had to top up and get more by lunchtime. I think it needs one more coat then I can really get going with the oils. I’m also working on various smaller canvases to try out different types of backgrounds. My plan was to paint black paintings with white marks. The inspiration for these works came from images of closed stutters, doors and windows in an old house in France. I am experimenting with different blacks adding colours to the background. Interestingly the canvases look very black but there are subtle colours visible-when photographed the colours were much more noticeable-this is something I may play with.