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Eynsham Gods
By: Lorna Marrison
I paint about my community and my life. This blog is to be a place where I can talk freely about my work.
Lorna Marrison
Lorna explores, with passion, a creative relationship with her environment. Her oil paintings offer alternative visions of our place and times. She connects with myths of the past with her renowned Morris dancers paintings.
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'Bartholomew Room Sketch', charcoal.
# 2 [7 July 2009]
I had an encouraging email from Andrew Bryant, the Artists talking Online Editor, encouraging me to continue by blog. I must confess a lack of confidence talking here as my style of work is definately figurative. The contemporary art scene does not share my values.
However ... I know that for my work to develop I need to think a lot harder about where my work is going. I live in a world that does not want to hear my 'art's bollocks' . So here goes and please bear with the baby steps. Starting straight into my present project ... a series of small 18.0 x 12.0 cm oils on coarse canvas (forces me to forget detail) looking the part of my village I call 'home'.
Here is an initial sketch showing The Bartholomew Rooms. It is a small medieval building which only has small windows on the ground floor which makes it very claustrophobic. I saw this view when sitting at pub tables opposite and liked the way that figures both blocked my view in but also attracted my eye in ...
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One of the great strengths of these blogs is the sheer variety of styles of work covered by them so please do continue. It would be a real shame if only one style above others felt validity to contribute and I think it would truly be a lost opportunity. Throwing the doors open to bring artists in together from all sides of the spectrum has all sorts of interesting and valuable possibilities to teach us.
posted on 2010-03-27 by Susan Francis
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Lorna Marrison, 'Initial drawing for 'Rainbow Strike'', Pencil.
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Lorna Marrison, ''Rainbow Strike'', pencil & water color. Finish work
# 1 [11 June 2009]
This drawing/painting has surprised me by direction it has taken. I had envisioned brightly lit chimneys surrounded by the darkness of the receding rain storm. The structure of the scaffold married with drawing of this structure made leaving the drawing marks show become important.
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