Writing my dissertation has led me to have so many ideas for artworks, in fact too many ideas for me to decide what to do next. I keep thinking about domestic rooms with patterned wallpaper. In the room would be something, or perhaps someone, to make the viewer uncomfortable. Nurses are another idea I have. Think Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – cold, cool, unfeeling, controlling. The opposite of what you expect a nurse to be. Maybe I should combine a nurse in a domestic space? I’m not sure.
I’ve been collecting images of nurses from the 1940s and 50s and I have found one I could work with. The colour will take a lot of planning as it is going to influence the way the viewer feels so I have been testing colour over the image. Perhaps after the months of writing my dissertation and not making artwork, I should stop thinking and start painting.
Image research
Experimenting with colour
