Developed from my coloured drawings of the the staircase at the Swan at Lavenham, edited on photoshop, I decided to do this painting using that same method of first drawing out the different sections of the image, then simply filling in the different sections with colours.
The idea of this painting was to create a large-scale, fragmented image with distortion to form a piece that hovered between abstraction and unreality. For this painting I worked from the image that I had distorted using photoshop tools, to twist the stairs into strange jagged angles, and make the beams between the roof and floor bend as if made of a soft material.
I was very pleased with the painting, and think that it is proving more impactful working on a larger scale.
