Committing to Big!

Having had some studio visits from friends and colleagues recently. I have been reminded of the need to engage with your work as a viewer and not just as the person who makes it. It is easy for thinking to become contained within the 'studio references' and not be wider, bolder, connected, multi-layered and bigger than intention and process.

Imagining myself as a viewer approaching my work, I was challenged to not just give an intimate up close selective experience. But rather ask: 'What if the work was present and greater in scale?' the impact being physical and visceral as well as ocular.

So be it.... I started getting bigger.

The series of 50x 50 cm gesso panels will be taken to Brighton Art Fair along with several 1 metre sqaures. Larger work can be seen in London at the Palace Art Fair in October, where I will have a bigger stand to take the bigger work.

Layers and Glazes

Few more shots from the studio as work develops. The daily series are accumulating a critical mass or colour, texture and references.

Apologies for quality of images, posted from iPhone

Work in Progress....

A couple more studio shots of the progress I am making with completing new work ahead of forthcoming shows.

Studio Shots

Work is well underway for Brighton Art Fair in a couple of weeks time. You will be able to find me on Stand 2, just as you enter the Corn Exchange to the left.

I will be showing new work from the daily studio collection (the small 10x10cm ones!) Along with larger work. Watch out for the 1 metre square, the 1.5 metre square and the departure from square format.... a whopping 2 metre x 1 metre panel, stretched French linen and gesso.

I have some spare tickets to the Art Fair, so if you would like to come see the work you have been following on this blog, then drop me an email.

Drawings in Sand