Run out of canvases and only a week to go at Stiwdio Maelor – so I’m playing on paper
‘Trajectory’ diptych (2 x Arches paper 76 x 56cm) still taped to the table
Another one still in progress
Series of smaller pieces worked together – 6 bits of sugary sweetness! Largest 2 are half sheets of Arches ie 56 x 38cm
‘All things nice… raspberry ripple?’
2 half sheets Arches – each 56 x 38cm
Hoping to get these 4 framed locally here in Wales. My fingers are firmly crossed that some or all of them will then be sent to Terre Verte gallery in Cornwall for ‘ Into the West’, the summer group show I have been invited to participate in there
‘Musing’ – 80cm sq
‘Spirited’ 100cm x 80cm
Skylight 1 – 50cm sq
Skylight 2 – 50cm sq
These are the 4 stages of my most recent largish canvas
It is on coarse unstretched (and creased badly from being in my suitcase) jute canvas about 4′ x 3′
This was actually the second session, I forgot to take a photo of when it was all red and yellow, with a bit of turquoise, stapled to the floor on Saturday morning
Sunday, more sombre with shapes consolidating
Early Monday morning – loads of alizarin crimson overlaid on the lower half and a mess in the middle and a scatty unresolved indecisive upper third
Maybe we’re getting somewhere
I will need the whole of the last week for the works to dry, wrap and arrange couriers or post
So starting my last few pieces now. The attic studio is looking very blue!
Filling up!
2 new 50cm panels started with first layers of paint and some contrasting powder pigment
Dawn this morning
Skylight and jeans on a nail 100 x 80cm
Another skylight piece still taped to the table
Moon rising with skylight 80cm sq
Risen moon with skylight 80cm sq
South gable / newest work
More layers on the ‘Skylight and jeans on a nail’ piece
Corner of finished pieces
2 on paper, 5 on 50cm panels
North end
Interiors today!
2 panels each 50cm sq
100 x 80cm
Derelict chapel (& daughter Hannah who came for lunch today)
Path
Cemetery fence (slate)
One end of studio today with 3 50cm panels in progress on the table in the foreground
One nearly done (left) and a new darker one just started 100 x 80cm on canvas
‘Corris 2’
Finished
50cm on panel
Corris 3
Finished
50cm on panel
The 2 canvases coming along now
Began to get a feel for where I’m going with these about 6 o’clock this morning. Painted furiously for a couple of hours still in my pyjamas!
Worked mostly on these 2 and put the first 2 layers on 3 x 50cm panels
Also working on a rough piece of unstretched canvas taped to a table
80cm sq (working title ‘Maelor 2’)
100 x 80cm
(Working title ‘Maelor 1’)
80 cm on canvas
2 on Arches paper (wip )
80cm sq on canvas
2 lovely days in Abergavenny in South Wales with my daughter and 2 grandkids
Back in the studio now
Just loving it!
Wifi next door at the wonderful Andy and Adams Cafe
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