I had an interim exhibition in February on the same day of my dissertation hand in, from left to right the work the titles included were Patrick Hughes Lilliput Collection, Northumberland Sketchbook, Richard Prince Photobooks & Offprints from the Warburg Institute
The Warburg Institute provided me with a research environment the first sketches I did there were folklore books in brown packing ontop of a cabinet which was further developed into an oil sketch. I am currently painting ‘offprints’ which was completed for the interim show. Prince photo-books was completed for my dissertation.
The research is branching into over-information, as I look yet further into the history of books I am discovering more interesting places to visit in London. Often these visits take a lot of pre-organizing if the books are to be handled and often enough I can get lost in information on the internet. Visual arrangements are sometimes found by chance, suggesting weighty fields of knowledge. I am still working on a large painting of a shelf in the Warburg Institute and the themes of book collecting inspired following my etchings of a unique filing cabinet in Warburg’s photography collection. The theme collecting goes well beyond Warburg’s lifespan and interestingly has taken on a life of its own.
