Really pleased Something’s happening was in Junes top 10 Artist talking blogs and was selected as a Choice blog by Tim Ridley.
I like the fact that Artists talking is a space for the other stuff. The important/unimportant strands, strands that we don’t always allow/have time or space for. Here doubts and questions can be addressed, picked up and put down, as and when.
Attended a portrait class this week, completely different to life drawing. Trying to find, then steal, and finally hold the visual identity of the sitter in a two dimensional form; really challenging.
The sitters weren’t professional (no offence!), we sat for each other. It was different to the scenario of an actor getting into character. Here it seemed a case of getting out of character, perhaps even a tendency to try and hide the personality, to display only the physical. Are both the physical and the psychological needed? – hypothetical I guess, it would be difficult to sit completely as a piece of flesh; void of psychological traits.
My recent paintings are absent of figures, the aim is to fill the absence of a figure with what I imagine the absent figure would sense; a psychological familiarity.
