These photographs show the responses I have had to recent conversations about my work and some long days in the studio thinking about my work. I have always worked vertically leaving much of the outcome of my work to gravity, which has always been something I enjoy to watch. The thought of my art being almost a conversation between me and the medium in which I’m using excites me as there are endless possibilities.
Will my thoughts match those of the paints?
What effect will water have on the paint and paper/canvas?
– the water is a tool to creating a running paint, it works as a fuel so the paint, whether waterolour or acrylic can run and form a line. Normally I work vertically so gravity plays a big part in my work, hence my resistence in turning my work horizontily. But what water does is enables me to work on a flat surface where there is still fluid to make movement…
as you can see in some of these photographs, where I have experimented with the position of the paper and you can see how the water runs in different lines.
Are my emotional feelings linked to what I am making?
– I used to believe that I had strong emotional links to my work but now I think that with how process based my work has become it would be hard to say that I am largely emotionally linked to it. I love making my work and the exploration of material and how it works not just with me but against me.
These are a few questions I’ve been asking myself recently when sitting down with my paints. The problem with trying to always find personal links with your work is that you end up over thinking what you are doing. This leads me to stressing over my work and the result is an unhappy artist.
These small paintings I made on paper excite me. The colours melt into one another and close ups such as these shown highlight the beauty in the scale of smaller pieces. I feel there is an industrial sense to them which is a contrast to the somewhat ‘pretty’ colours I went with. Although purple is normally associated with young girls and floral patterns it can have cold tendencies and is known to stimulate brain activity. This could explain the hours spent working over these small pieces last week!
