::Back to Painting::

Back to painting. I decided to pick up the awld paint brush again & I must say it felt good. I came home from the studio feeling quite inspired & enthusiastic about where my final piece, or should I say pieces, are going . I haven't felt like that in a while. I've been in the studio working a lot as I have to move out of my studio in college in the next week and I thought I would try and get settled in and used to working in my new studio. The time in my studio has allowed me to rethink my degree show proposal. I have slightly altered it, well actually completely altered it . I felt that using the wallpaper piece I had done last semester was not progressing my work enough. So have opted to leave it out, but I'm now returning to a direction which has interested me for a long time, memento mori (meaning, remember thy death) It is not as morbid as it sounds! I have a fascination with our journeys from cradle to grave & is primarily what my work has been based around over the last couple of years. Using hair in my work either be it real or an interpretation of that has also been a focus. Hair is loaded with symbolism...death, life, growth, fertility, femininity, strength, the passing of time and the list goes on. I'm feeling a lot more content with where it is going now.
So with all that said, over the next few weeks I'm concentrating on being in the studio and getting my work done...after all these next few weeks are the most crucial. I'll pop in with a few updates but think they may be a bit sporadic!