In the development of this project my paintings have developed a darker side to them than any of my previous work.
Some of Antony Micallef’s paintings (an artist I came across while researching imagery for my last blog post) seem in keeping to this and so unlock something emotional in me as the viewer.
‘Meat Head’. – which I feel has visual elements (muted colour palette) that links to some of my paintings in this body of work .
An element of deformed flesh and transformation through painting.
‘A Little Bit of Me’ and ‘Self Portrait 3’ feel inbetween something familiar and something I have never seen before. Something half animal half human. Another inbetween state- like the flesh hanging at the butchers in between living animal and meat. They are painted in monochrome which remind me of my ‘Trapped Flesh I’ and ‘Trapped Flesh II’
From this I have also started to look at the imagery of Kathy Kollwitz, Ryan Hewett and Edvard Munch.
