Two new works, created after a recent week long painting class
Painting
China 86_ three more works
I have varied the palette to reflect the colours of the original photos on which the following works are based.
# Resilient women 2018
I have manipulated the paintings of Bird, Cable and David-Need to give the images a contemporary context, with a ‘headline’ that to me summarises their life story. For the viewer to ponder.
Resilient women series 2018
This is the start of the new series for 2018, based around images of resilient women. These works are painted in magenta, to reflect the colour coding of the Penguin book series ‘Travel and Adventure’. From L to R they are based on:
- Isabella Bird (1831-1904)
- Alexandra David-Neel (1868-1969)
- Mildred Cable (1878-1952)
Recent works _ February 2018
China 86 – suspended images
I am experimenting with a new approach to capturing old images- scraping back the paint to leave a ghost image.
China 86- 4 views of a camel
I have made 4 attempts to paint the same image of a camel (cropped from a standard tourist photo of me riding one by the Great Wall of China in 1986). Practice does not make perfect, just different. Hints of sheep and birds can be seen in the works (samel, bamel….).
January 2018_more images from China 86
December 2017_more images from China 86
In preparation for an exhibition in 2018, I have been working on some more images from the China 86 source photos. See the results below:
