Thought my blog was looking a bit plain so here are some pics of what I am working on at the moment. The mixed-media painting (dimensions 1m x 1m) is basically finished now, although I am planning on giving it a simple frame to make it stand out. The piece was initially inspired by a used paint palette I found in the studio, but also by the patterns on some rocks I found at the top of a mountain in the Lake District.
The other image is of a work still very much in progress. My lecturers thought I should perhaps leave it as it was and just exhibit the found object like Duchamp with his readymades. Although I feel that while readymades can be art works in their own right, there is little artistic passion behind them. I would rather use the found object to create a sculpture that incorporated my own response to the form, so the piece was like an unspoken dialogue between my expressions and the found object. I would hope that a piece like this would be far more available for an audience to connect to as opposed to a readymade.
