I’m continuing my overriding theme running
through all of my projects of a subjective sense of reality, making sense of,
and looking at my reality in a figurative way.
I’m also feeling the need to strive for
more, and stretch out of my comfort zone and so I am intending to work in paint
on the biggest canvas I can within the practical confines of limited space at
college. I have only ever worked small
and very detailed and tight. This will
also I hope, force me to work in a looser, more painterly way. The other aspect of the challenge I have set
myself is the subject matter. The
subject is a portrait of my mother. This
is a challenge on a personal level for not only do I want to capture the ‘feel’
of my mum but this process also means dealing with many aspects of emotional
associations. I do feel this painting is
something I have to do, both for growth as an artist and also for personal
evolution and growth.
Overall, this project is about putting
feeling into work. The priority is no
longer technical accuracy which I may have been a bit preoccupied with before,
but more about capturing an ‘essence’ or ‘feel’. I need to use paint again as I have still got
lots to experience in the medium and need to keep the continuity in this
learning. I would still like to use print at some point but it’s all time dependent.
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