Week Thirty-One | Studio Progress

‘Dance like it hurts. Love like you need the money. Work like someone is watching’.

- Beavis and Butthead, circa 1990

I am painting every day for the first time since starting the MA. I am dividing my time between drawing and painting and although it feels really good, I am somewhat neglecting some of the more experimental works. I don’t know how drawing and painting relate currently, but that might be for another time.

My paintings are evolving around ideas of beauty and ruination in a sense of place. They are boneyards and feel like the right balance between the ecological grief I feel so acutely and the necessity of not so much melancholy that I just can’t face them.

I am working like someone is watching as I have a few shows coming up. Which is good but I feel like it’s hard to make finished work and experiment as well.

Dreading the feedback on the RP and the sweat that’s going to be needed to get the thing over the line. Not that I am not enjoying it, I really am, I just don’t have time for everything so I see some really hideous all nighters in my immediate future. Eek. At least painting feels really good.

A selection of paintings in various stages of #wip-ness: