Finding myself frustrated with the painting process. I decide to strip myself of the title 'painter' and replace it with 'artist'. This gives me a much freer feeling and 'permission' to investigate other mediums without having to think about them as preliminaries to painting. Other mediums/practices have always played a part within my work, but somehow I have always sidelined them as the other stuff I do when not painting. Now I am thinking about them as part of the extended range of my practice - different approaches needed to articulate and manifest my ideas.
The subject matter of memory, how it unfolds in and upon itself; it's fallibility, truths and falsehoods are still central to my practice. The use of landscape with its variable possibilities of journeys as a metaphor for memory is also its most poignant manifestation and where I feel most able to express these ideas/questions.
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After Image: Inkjet Photograph on Archival Cotton Rag |
The photography collages are running at the same speed as my pattern of thoughts. Ideas can be very quickly created, progressed or discarded.Starting with my own or found photographs I am using a mixture of collage, Photoshop, cutting, sticking and re-photographing.Being a novice to Photoshop, I am currently unencumbered with stifling knowledge and am embracing the 'accidents' of new explorations.
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| Reflecting: Inkjet Photograph on Archival Cotton Rag |
The processes are mentally similar to the ones I engage in whilst painting, but the physical process is much faster allowing me a lot more room for experimentation.
I have begun to make little mock-up sets in which to manipulate the ideas.Cutting and sticking together different photos,adding props, lighting then re-photographing.Playing with what we see- real and perceived. Creating new 'memories' of places that never quite were.
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| The Hut:Inkjet Photograph on Archival Cotton Rag |
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