Quotes from Skinning the Paint by Emily Braun, a key text in contextualising my project. I will reflect back on this and try and more clearly pair parts of this text with my work. ‘In the history of art, Titian […]
Tilted heads… When I had a break from blogging I had just mentioned I had started a curved neck portrait (Head Tilted I). I have since worked on this and started another painting from the same series of photographs. I […]
Preparing for Degree Show and reflection on project… I think I have always know that this project has been bigger than my degree project and so in away you could say I’ve bitten off more than I can chew. For […]
This week we get Somewhat Abstract in Nottingham, catch Charley Peters’ virtual show of interactive drawings online, and explore the relationship between the body and sculpture with Jonathan Baldock in Cardiff.
Reflecting back to the previous Bacon post, I found a video of Bacon talking about how he uses photography in his work. He was inspired by paintings by Van Gogh, Valazquez and many more artists and he also works from […]
Talking to some people at the UCS show at Marylebone Church in London, it was mentioned that my painting has a haunting religious element to it and fits well with the surroundings . I did find it strange seeing the […]
Film stills and own images… After a tutorial and reading back blog post 10 I have been led to revisit the idea of video stills in the context of the paintings I have been creating – Trapped Flesh I in […]
LONDON & BODY LANGUAGE EXHIBITION. This week I went to London to hand in a piece of my work from 2013 to Trinity Buoy Wharf for submission to the BP portrait awards, 2014. The standard of work was incredible high […]
Talking to my tutor today about Francis Bacon’s painting techniques. She feels sure that whilst critics talk about him re-working his gestures (going over marks in the still wet paint) – working on an unprimed canvas abosrbs paint straight away […]
I have always had a battle with myself as a painter. What is more important and where does the balance lie between paint and the subject? Last year I looked at the actual act of painting and paints physical qualities […]
After seven years as head of the Arts Council Collection, in October Caroline Douglas became the new Director of the Contemporary Art Society. She looks back on a hectic, ‘high-octane’ year.
One of London’s best known art meccas faces an uncertain future following the decision by Westminster Council to redevelop the area into luxury apartments.
I have watched ‘The British Face’ several times now….a DVD about portraiture, in association with London’s National Portrait Gallery by the Irish actress and theate director Fiona Shaw. What a relevation!!. Shaw interviews painters such as Stuart Pearson Wright to […]
Here is a painted version of another of the rooms at Eltham Palace. I applied large areas of smooth paint to flatten the perspective and make the space appear indinstinct and unreal. Again I used colours similar to those in […]
For this painting I decided to use a black background to create a dreamlike and disjointed appearance. I wanted the objects in the room to appear unanchored, seeming to float in the space, separate from the surrounding walls and floor. […]
I Can See a Rainbow “Any colour, so long as it’s black.” Henry Ford When I said watercolour portraits at the end of the previous post, I imagined that I would paint as I had in the past, a face-to-face […]
Joella Wheatley won the inaugural Platform Graduate Award at the end of November. Here, a-n’s Director talks to her about her practice, networks and getting good advice.
Museo Picasso Malaga, Malaga
22 October 2012 – 10 February 2013
The U Turn Portraits-Part Two. “Of course you will say that I ought to be practical and ought to try and paint the way they want me to paint. Well, I will tell you a secret. I have tried and […]
Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
13 September – 1 November 2012
It is the last week of August and I am working on a performance which will take place an event called The Shag, 180 Lambeth Road, London in a set of artist studios. The place is tiny, it has a […]
Tate St Ives, St Ives
18 January – 7 May 2012
Camden Arts Centre, London
7 October 2011 – 8 January 2012
This is how one of my final paintings are coming. I can’t wait to have it finished. The colours are going to be yellows, blues and red and also some white. I’ve been thinking about Francis Bacon and also Kitaj […]
How I got banned from Sothebys. February 16, 2010: I decided to write this up as a record for myself. I wanted a reminder of a quite strange chain of events. Feel free to read on, or not :D The […]
