In preparation for our Degree Show, I have been planning my biggest painting yet.It is not the likes of Picasso’s Guernica or the unbelievable scale of David Hockney’s new work (exhibited at the Royal Academy at this very moment).But it will be an 8ft by 8ft painting, four times bigger than what I’ve been working on lately. It will require a quadruple amount of time, four times more paint, and four times the amount of detail. As the scale gets bigger the detail also expands in quantity. I think that in order for the detail in the work to be significant, it will need a huge variation of scale, a balance between both extremes of the gigantic and the miniature.
Working in the workshop was great fun. I haven’t been in there in a while and missed the smell of the wood and the heavy mass of the tools.
