So, My work as taken a bit of a turn in the last few weeks. It’s gone from this:
To this:
How do I reckon these two styles together?
Alot of the paintings I have done feel quite general – they don’t have a specific location, they feel more about a mood, an atmosphere, the location specificity is not what these paintings are about. More about what the possibilities of place as a medium for mood, atmosphere, event.
The only painting in this collection that doesn’t fit with this theme is this painting:
It is a depiction of a specific place. The sense of time in this painting is very different to the rest.
Time in the other paintings feels endless, expansive. Time in this painting feels shorter, much shorter. Bound to that place, when this scene was witnessed, when the conkers were put there.
This painting feels like an anchor. It does look a bit out of place.
I really need to get them all out on the studio floor and look at them in person, and play around with combining them.
What am I trying to do with these paintings? I am wary of the paintings on board, it’s as if they have been too fun to make. Painting shouldn’t be this fun and spur of the moment, surely?!
I do feel a calling to paint big again. Combine some of these elements on a bigger scale. Well I could do slightly bigger board? I’m thinking of collaging elements, which is what I was trying to do with the big paintings earlier this year at Turps.
I do still love board. Maybe collaged paintings on board. Why collaged? Because maybe the paintings can exist seperately and then be hung together, collaged that way, rather than being on one painting together. HMM.
Defo something to experiment with. Lots more experimenting to be done! And I intend to go on another walk in Sussex next week to fuel painting.
Georgina Harris 