After sharing my studio with my beautiful friend Sophie Bass for five years I am taking on the space myself and have had a huge studio makeover to create room for making BIG paintings.
It’s been nostalgic sorting through all the studio drawers; pulling out old drawings and sitting in the middle of the chaos looking through them like diary entires.
I’m forever forgetting to take my sketchbook to paces where I’d really like it so the drawers are stuffed with these scraps of paper I’ve drawn on when out and about.
Here are some pages NOT from my sketchebook...
Paula Modersohn-Becker’s Self portrait on New Year’s Eve at the Tate
A man having a hilarious time on his phone drawn on the Private Eye
Huma Bhabha’s incredible curled feet at her exhibition alongside Giacometti at the Barbican
Some marble busts at the National Gallery Denmark
A woman eating noodles in china town on a receipt
AND FROM MY STUDIO WALL...
This is my study for ‘I Paint What I Want to See’ When I made it, my mind was somewhere else entirely, paying very little attention to what was forming in front of me.
I painted very fast, as a side note on colour and composition for the larger painting to come, but when I looked at it the next day I wishes I could always paint like that. That lack of care is a very hard thing to replicate. Here’s to trying!
Would you rather? WITH ME!??
In a short break from my questions about potatoes and studio lunch I am sharing an interview I did with Talking with Creatives about my practice. Watch it here!