I often find when asked to talk about my paintings it is very difficult to explain my thoughts on it or what the paintings themselves were "about". It seems to weird to be watching myself back, talking about the "meaning" and techniques involved in my work. Especially since I will give you a different answer everytime you ask me what a painting is about. It depends entirely on my mood at the time, and I see no point in pretending otherwise.
However for the sake of the compilation I did go through the paintings from the exhibition and gave a wee bit of chat about each one. I sound like such a crazy wee woman with no clue what she is doing! But I'm sure that most artists feel that way... I hope :P
In the mean time I'm working on two projects just now (when I get the time between this moving house milarky and my crafty business). One you all have seen before by now is the painting "Stretching Female Form":
I've never felt she is entirely finished, so tonight I took her out of her frame and put her up on my wall to work on. I'll post a WIP as I get on with it. She is quite a different piece, and one of my earliest oil paintings so I do care about the piece, however (much like Maiden of Time) I exhibited her unfinished. I'm sure I will know when she is truly done!
I'm also working on this little painting, which is currently drying on my mini easel:
It's just a play painting more than anything else. I decided when I was finished with the "Maiden, Mother and Crone" lino cuttings I didn't want to just put them in a drawer and forget all about them. Instead I have stuck them onto a piece of mock-wood and started to work on them as a piece in their own right. I've just finished re-applying some of the brighter oil colours.
So that's me just now. Working away, and packing like a crazy woman! Moving takes so much effort it makes me ache! But hopefully once we are moved into the new flat and I have my own little studio room all shall run smoothly once again!
PS. New Exhibition in the pipe line... Wait out on that :) x
