At New Year I visited the Museum of London: Dickens and London exhibition and the Dickens BBC programming, Dickens 2012 website have been helpful- as has having listened to a lot of his audiobooks whilst painting.
Having looked closely at the contents of the Dickens Museum I last painted some mottled magazine stacks in a cabinet behind class. In extension of this I have investigated the Forster bequest at the V&A, and begun a small series of work on the Dickens manuscripts: the original, the photocopied versions, and various conserved manuscripts.
This work is moving me toward the group show at the beginning of the residency which takes place in February, the same date as the Dickens bicentenary.
