Studio Picture
A studio clear-out and tidy-up deserves a photo...doesn’t happen that often...
The Blue Dress
As good as finished but without a title yet, so for now, it is called ‘The Blue Dress' oil on linen, 50x60cm This painting was inspired by a condition called POTS , something I have lived with all of my adult life. POTS is a fairly unknown condition of the autonomic nervous system which makes you dizzy and faint, at best, and wheelchair/bed bound at worst. I wanted to express the feeling of dizziness and loneliness in a painting. For this painting I looked at medieval art, like Fra Angelico’s architecture and drapery, Vermeer’s use of blue, and of light, I picked pieces from Blenheim Palace and my imagination to put this all together in a vision of Alice in Wonderland-styled confusion and dizziness. For more on POTS, check out the patient charity STARS Edit spring 2012: I did some more work on it, here is the final image:
Your studio does indeed look very clean. It is the colours as well as the pack of debris. I wish I could manage to keep my area without splatters of paint and spilt turpentine.
ReplyDeleteah, but you have a different style of painting! I paint very neat and tidy, I don’t even get it on my clothes or fingers (well, usually not) and I need to be a bit tidy as there’s kids running around! So my studio is full of clutter most of the time, as it is basically too small to fit in all my stuff. I’ve put loads of old paintings away, sorted out paperwork....and voila!
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