‘Conversation with a Trapped Bee.’
The title is a result of an earlier post -there are hidden meanings and dualities in it which I feel support the painting.
Conversation not monologue because paint is a two way thing – either the conversation between painter and painting or painting and viewer?
I think there is a successful feeling of space – foot coming out – built up thick paint in this area.
Also thick cloying paint on knuckles.
Dry sweeping marks – hair – over some areas like shoulder.
These areas of dry worked into paint remind me of Hyman Bloom – ‘Portrait of a Rabbi’, 1948.
Dry marks again for bee – very subtle.
I would perhaps like to return to this painting after my assessment and work into it further. I definitely wish to work on this same scale to develop my ability and familiarity. The language on this scale is completely different and I think it makes a very thought provoking comparison to my smaller works – it will be good to have this in my degree show.
It is also interesting to see the development in my language and painting as well as the development of themes and ideas from my first paintings in the project, up until the present moment.
(These photographs are bleaching the colour a bit – painter not photographer issues) I’ve lost some of the richness in colour I had in earlier stages but i think there is strong emotive language in this paint . This is exactly why I want to re-return to doing a development of flesh on this scale. I just need to do more more more!
