Interiority

My unit two feedback included the endlessly confusing reference of Rachel Jones, which has been wrestled with, laughed about and head scratched over. As joked with JK in my tutorial, a tutor could probably put the same reference in every students work and see if they find a way back to their own work and extract something useful from it. JK couldn’t completely remember the source of the mention in the feedback other than the idea of interiority in landscapes and inner places painted on a large scale, which is of course completely relevant.

I have been painting interiorities more and more. Colour is ever so tricky and working small and in the kitchen does not allow the painterliness that makes all of this relevant. But I like it. Little spermy shapes or cocoons appear, which remind me of emerging creepy crawlies, a theme that is yet to be fully explored. Some are still landscapey, which is OK, they sort of oscillate in and out of old ideas and new, self and other. What emerges is still that sense of loss and sadness, the vulnerability of place. The hugeness of it all, the Earth I mean, but also the grief that will never fully lay down and rest.

Each A3 acrylic on watercolour paper.