I've had a few minor breakthroughs in my work since my last post, and of course a few exhibition rejections, but that's all part of the fun and I'm far more selective these days than I used to be.
I've enjoyed painting on the rough hessian as opposed to the smooth canvas and the more delicate voile, and I like the way that the different materials compliment and contrast each other. I've also been thinking about my ideas, and what my work means (again) and decided to try something different, almost in reaction to the rest of my work, it is very bright and straight edged, but it kind of says similar things to the rest of my work, it's only a test piece that I'll probably grow to hate.
I keep just starting new pieces of work rather than sticking with one piece and seeing it through and really finishing it, I think I've become scared of finishing work, maybe of overworking it. I think I've got something like 9 pieces on the go at the moment, which seems a bit ridiculous, they're constantly evolving though and they all seem to feed off of each other, so I guess it's a healthy way of working.
Just reading this post back, I sound really negative, but I'm totally not, I'm happy as I'm seeing my work slowly changing and hopefully evolving.
