I had an interesting chat with one of my studio colleagues on Wednesday, we were talking about our art in general and things we are doing at the moment.
My studio friend was telling me how she does teaching part time and how she makes work part time alongside the teacheing, she spoke about how she had to keep the two quite seperate and it took a different way of thinking to mentally switch from one to the other. But the one thing that interested me was how she was able to do so many diverse things at the same time.
I realised that I am able to work on many paintings at the same time without any difficulty but they are all olong the same theme. I am working on some work for a commission that was a result of my degree show work so I am still continuing along the same ideas e.t.c as I have for the last 3 years at University.
This made me ask myself if I was capable at the moment of working on different paintings at the same time with different themes/styles/ideas, I've never had to. University gave me a purpose to steer for and I suppose in a way detereds me from experimentatiion in other areas. My aim in the next few months is to start some new work about different things and see If I can continue with these multiple themes/ideas. I think it will be quite interesting to see the results.The first part of my commission work is exhibited in 3 weeks time and then in April. I do have more work to make for the April show but I have plenty of time to have a go at something different, although at the moment I;m not quite sure what different is….I'll keep you posted
