It has been a busy few months with so many projects being wrapped up and new ones being created, I thought I might share a few notes. On the right, my first large-scale pen and ink ready to head off to the framers. On the desk, eight small pen and ink works almost ready to frame for a 2 person show (at Deluxe, 14 - 28 September). On the left, the underdrawing is complete for my oil painting and ready for the first layer. This work is part of a series that has been brewing in my mind for a long time.
I am essentially working on three series in three different mediums at once. My pen & ink works I see as living in a Platonic World of Ideas. Meanwhile, the oil works are more like philosophy at play in reality, which creates this new sense of relationship with and particular sensitivity to my subjects, who are all modelled from real life poses and props.
These series both continue my usual themes including the strength of the 'story', the 'repetition of history', the philosophical ideal, with both playful and satirical notes.
I look forward to returning to my acrylic works later this year which I see as the meeting place between these two.
