Draw: August 2009

Monday 31 August 2009

Sunday 30 August 2009

Wednesday 26 August 2009

Tuesday 25 August 2009

Monday 24 August 2009

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This is Leda and the swan. It's just a rough idea I messed about with. Swans mating with humans. Lovely!

Saturday 22 August 2009

Friday 21 August 2009

Thursday 20 August 2009

Monday 17 August 2009

Sunday 16 August 2009

Thursday 13 August 2009

Wednesday 12 August 2009

Tuesday 11 August 2009

Monday 10 August 2009

Mosul

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8192669.stm

Friday 7 August 2009

Thursday 6 August 2009

Wednesday 5 August 2009

Tuesday 4 August 2009

Monday 3 August 2009

Saturday 1 August 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.