Draw: 2009

Thursday 31 December 2009

Tuesday 29 December 2009

Friday 25 December 2009

Monday 14 December 2009

Sunday 13 December 2009

Saturday 12 December 2009

Friday 11 December 2009

Tuesday 8 December 2009

Monday 7 December 2009

Saturday 5 December 2009

Friday 4 December 2009

Thursday 3 December 2009

Wednesday 2 December 2009

Friday 27 November 2009

Tuesday 24 November 2009

Monday 23 November 2009

Sunday 22 November 2009

Friday 20 November 2009

Thursday 19 November 2009

Tuesday 17 November 2009

Artist's Statement

The images that I paint and draw are characters I develop from found photographs. The photographs often celebrate or commemorate times of past England, leisure, iconography and social history. After I select imagery from different locations and eras, I go about ‘forming’ my own scenario, which is an alchemical and tentative process. I am careful to leave my viewer room to speculate upon their own narrative, this is important to me. I am hoping that I can extrude and expand upon the resource of emotion and information this found photography gives to me. With my painting I intend to filter the content I find, into a whole new sensory experience for my viewer.

I am currently focusing on how found photographs of twee, English settings show people engaging in the sensuality of their location. I pick up on and accentuate the way their expressions show enjoyment associated with sea side ephemera, like ice cream in a cone and donkey rides. The 21st century is far removed from that environment; people usually aspire to go abroad. The presence of sea side’s as a cultural and inspirational place has diminished, as quality of living has improved. With my painting, I use this kind of misplaced nostalgia to create my absurd dreamlike worlds, which exude joy and indulgence in simple pleasures. The drawings I do have a realistic approach where I use hatching to establish tone and texture, the painting style is markedly different, cartoonish, fluid and brightly coloured.