University Campus Suffolk

We had the art auction a couples weeks ago and it went really well, here’s the piece I submitted for the auction a portrait of David Bowie. Yesterday I went to the Marylebone Parish Church in London for the Contemporary British Painting show that my piece ‘Falling Into The Abyss’ was selected for. At the moment my intentions with this project were about how the audience reacts to a piece in different environments. Having this piece hung up in my studio for a while, and then in an exhibition in Ipswich and then London, I’m interested to see how people from different places react and to see what they think or how they feel when they see the painting. Seeing the painting hung up I felt it fitted really well with its surroundings. It also made think again more about scale…the area was quite large, looking where my painting was placed I think I could worked on a much bigger scale. The emotion in the painting is not a powerful dark emotion, but I imagine when its bigger it would create more of an impact. During the trip to London I went to the National Portrait Gallery to find the portrait of the black man with the bright flourescent background and I finally found out who painted it. Looking at the painting now it is not completely relevant to the portrait of Anna but I like the randomness of the colour choice.