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Preparing the Ground for Painting

This post discusses some practicalities of preparing the ground for painting.  I’ve been working with the motif of a figure mopping a corridor. Specifically, a female cleaner mopping a floor. It’s a prosaic subject: a solitary figure wielding a brush […]

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Playing the field

Following on from my large paper collages combined with paint, I have moved on for a bit to working on small archival pieces of paper. I was given a small bundle of these a few years ago when I did […]

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The next phase

It takes time for experiences to settle and to become truly a part of your existence; your modus operandi. Studying for my BA and then MA was a gruelling, exciting time. Just getting through it seemed to take up all […]

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Painting

Big board. Sitting over it. Picking it up and moving it linseed oil – different liquidity – more engagement with materiality . Slips and slides you can feel more of a connection between the brush, paint and board. Physicaly it […]

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