Work has begun

I went to the house with certain ideas about what was going to happen, but some uncertainty about what I was going to create, it was an amazing time, that left me wanting more!
For more on our time in the house check out borrowedspace.blogspot.com/
It's strange going to a place to crate something that you will then show, but arriving and not really knowing what you are going to do!!! For me there was quite a bit of uncertainty in what I would achieve over the couple of days in the house. As it is a site specific project, I found it hard to go along without any preconceived ideas of what I would produce.


I ended up working with a piece of wallpaper I found in the rubble downstairs, which was on a board that looked like it had been ripped out of a cupboard of sorts. I then transfered the image onto the wall upstairs, where the original blue flower wallpaper was that I became attached to on my first visit to the house. The wallpaper found on this trip, was red and quite beautiful and delicate, I could imagine it in a room full of chintz, damask and jacquard fabrics. I captured one piece of the wallpaper in particular, a lady, or 'the lady in red' as I like to call her. Each time I painted her, she morphed into someone slightly different.


She started off as a lady in Oriental clothing but ended up wearing Edwardian clothing. Quite simply, I fell in love with her, and found myself not wanting to leave the wall where her identity was being discovered. I was captivated by her presence and was entwined in this intimate moment with her each time I painted her again.