Author: georginaharrisart

I don’t like doing this map painting anymore. What do I mean? I mean the paintings where I map a place, area of land using colour. I felt, just now, like a controller of the painting when I started doing the maps. Lame. This is the painting so far. I think I preferred it when…… Continue reading map painting

I am doing this new painting of a tree I saw on a walk yesterday in Richmond park. The tree had a fence around it I assume because it’s so old it’s protected. It had this big gaping hole in the middle of it. I sat and drew it for a time in the sketch…… Continue reading Remnants of people in paintings

https://videopress.com/v/5thVtg3s?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true I made a stop motion in my studio practice! I feel like I’m tapping into something very me with this way of working. Tapping into a sense of childlike play. I was supposed to film this on my camera and tripod, but when I got to the studio I realised I didn’t have an…… Continue reading Zennor Quoit stop motion first attempt

I made a clay sculpture yesterday. It’s inspired by Spring. Blooming, full, lush, chocker-block. I wanted to try and capture that mood in making this diorama but I struggled to create the shapes I wanted. I wanted lots of shapes to be suspended in the air but that’s difficult because clay is heavy and needs…… Continue reading Current wip

It’s the start of the day and I need to get some things down in writing I think. It’s been quite a week. Monday was painting and getting ready for Tuesday and meeting the mentors. Tuesday was doing the talk, the lunch afterwards, then walk and mentor session with Zac then dinner and the pub…… Continue reading St Ives 24.3

https://www.cornwalls.co.uk/history/sites/zennor_quoit.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN_XJlCf0ec&t=637s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zennor_Quoit I have been painting a burial chamber. Completely taking it out of its context. I’m taking the shape and putting it in an empty room, with no colour, no landscape. I am painting the site removed of landscape and removed of its materiality. No weather, soil, earth, living thing, wind, or sun.…… Continue reading St Ives 18.3

Thoughts from my walk back from the studio I need to find a word for the rock stone sites. What does it mean to paint these sites. How do I feel about using these sites in my painting? These were meaningful sites for humans thousands of years ago, they have a modern meaning today as…… Continue reading St Ives 17.3

I don’t think my paintings are really about the place anymore. The paintings are about painting. I am using the form, dimension, architecture of the coast here as form, dimension and architecture in my painting. It feels strange. Maybe I have always been doing that, but it’s been under the guise of place-based making, relationship…… Continue reading St Ives 16.3