Sooooo. I’ve been making a tonne of these small paintings. They’re mostly of vantage points of st. Agnes. I’ve had a lot of fun doing them but I don’t want to make any more right now so I’m sitting down and going to write about them. Feeling kind of tired. Anyway.
At the moment the wall is quite overwhelming, there’s a bunch up, some I like far more than others. I might cut down, take down the ones I don’t like, hopefully at least some of them are dry!!
Today I’ve done this strange thing with a piece of cardboard folded and I painted the beady pool part of scilly on it, folded it like a card and painted it as if it were sitting on the surface of a colourful outline of st ages. It’s very fun! Reminds me of that NW based artist Angela May Davis. Here’s the painting:
It feels like a muddying of the original, simple reduction of my memory of the landscape. The original two bays beady pool painting sums up my memory of the place in a true way. Here’s a pic of it:
This folded painting is going back into confusion. Why am I doing it? I don’t want to know right now. How could it be better? What is it achieving?
I’m not sure about these colourful outlines of the island.
I am doing that thing where I place the memory in a frame. Perhaps that’s what this diorama thing is at the end of the day. Just a frame, a Howard Hodgkins inspired frame. I always feel like the canvas needs to be bigger so I have more space around. I could make the objects smaller but they would lose their nice shape because small is difficult. It’s kind of fun, collagey. Am I excited by it? Kind of.
What am I excited about? I like the idea of collaging some of these scenes.
I think I need to declutter first though. Hope they’re dry!
Georgina Harris 