01/02/20
Detail of “Self-Portrait with Sketchbook” - painting in progress
Right, get paint down! Started two little pieces today and “The Crown of Dionysus” is complete"!
“The Crown of Dionysus” on my very dirty studio wall.
02/02/20
The last palindrome day for another 111 years. Damn rugby is distracting!
“No Remorse” - background building up.
03/02/20
Parcel.
06/02/20
“Religion decays, the icon remains; a narrative is forgotten, yet its representation still magnetises (the ignorant eye triumphs - how galling for the informed eye).”
Julian Barnes - ‘Géricault: Catastrophe into Art’
“No sooner do we come into this world, than bits of us start to fall off.”
Gustave Flaubert
09/02/20
Detail of body - “No Remorse”
Using storm Ciara to aid in the drying process.
10/02/20
Submission started.
Mobile installation?
11/02/20
…might be a little out there. Will sit on it for a while.
“Laziness is a sign of mediocrity.”
Voltaire
15/02/20
Visit by Jane and Hugh.
Victim / Perpetrator / Both
linking current work.
17/02/20
All pieces are wrapped and ready to go.
21/02/20
Slight change of plan.
23/02/20
Sketchbook work tonight.
25/02/20
Nerves are shredded already!
26/02/20
Work is on its way.
27/02/20
Well that’s it! Install complete I’m really happy with the exhibition and now it’s a waiting game for the opening.
29/02/20
Louis Fratino on Talk Art podcast.
Repeating motifs. mem: Like that odd shoulder loop that happens in drawings and then translates to paintings.
Made good progress in some areas of “Remorse” (bodies) but mostly have over painted to the point where I can’t put anything else down. Better to walk away now and go again another day than to push it over the edge today. Have reintroduced some rough drawing elements into the background.
