Settled In
It’s been over a month since my last post. In that time, although I have been beginning to make new work, I decided to slow down a little in order to fully settle back into to life in London. It has now been (only) 3 months since I moved back, and I was trying to do everything all at once, with moving into a new flat, starting a new job, getting a new studio. I didn’t really give myself anytime to settle and it burned me out a little.
In that sense, it does seem as if I have been back here for a lot longer, so I guess I am feeling quite settled now.
The studio looks great, and is now a joy to spend time in. It is more spacious than the old studios that I used to rent outside of London and the window and natural light makes a massive difference. I’ve noticed as I am beginning to make new work that I feel more confident, it doesn’t matter what I do, as long as I stay true to my ideas.
So far I have been working on a new series of paintings, that I have given a working title of ‘Dead Landscapes’. It’s all in the early stages. They are a direct response to my sculptural/installation work. I am painting in a different way to how I used to. They are smaller for a start and have a calmess to them. It’s too early for me to post images of them yet, but it is so nice to be painting again.
I am also working towards my next show, at Cusp Art Gallery in Leicester in August. It is quite a big space, so calls for something with a bit of scale. The exhibition is all about dystopia and architecture and there is just three of us, including Patrick Mifsud who I have worked with before, so I am confident that it will be a successful exhibition. My ideas so far, which have come about after making some of those paintings, centre around a ruined structure. I am now frantically thinking about materials. There will be more about this in a future post.
It’s now been six months since I started this blog. I have to a certain extent began to rebuild my practice. I guess that was the easy bit. I now need to re-focus my practice and prioritise my practice.
