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In this video, which was filmed and edited by Miheer Shetty, I talk about my retrospective show.

1024 colours (1973) is one of Richter’s well-known colour chart paintings, which he began producing in the late 1960s. They were inspired by the commercial colour charts found in hardware stores.

I bought this canvas from a charity shop I find this a convenient way to paint on a larger scale . I also like to use recycled materials in my practice.

Exploring and experimenting with colour as it is an important part of my painting practice. To explore mark-making, composition, space, and light within my process of painting.

This oil on canvas was a direct response to the photograph below. I liked the blue of the sky and how the yellow Forsythia was lit by the street light .

I have started my primary research by taking photographs of my daily journeys. Focusing mainly on what I see and what catches my attention.

Through out this project I have tried to focus on developing my own style in painting. I think painting for me is instinctive process, I enjoy the physicality of applying the paint.

Thankfully , the new images are a lot better quality and they sit better in the gallery space.

The current restrictions have allowed me to indulge a reading habit, I reread “Kidnapped” by Robert Lewis Stevenson.

Lee Lozano, an eccentric artist who pursued Conceptual Art and painting in the 1960’s and then left the New York art world for self-imposed exile that included an embargo on contact with other women.

My starting point with sketching was from the photographs I took of a spider as Tom suggested that I look at motifs and imagery, I started with insects which we fear such as spiders, moths, mosquitos.

After two life-threatening illnesses, Goya was likely to have been concerned with his own mortality and was increasingly embittered by the civil strife occurring in Spain.

Proposal for Specialist Studio practice

The three images I have submitted as my final outcome.

I used casting resin and an old paint brush to “glaze” the plastic on to the frame.

The frames development seems to be coming together quite well.

I have decided to make the canvas from recycled materials as I do not have a large canvas at home and I like using recycled materials.

I think if I move the idea of still life drawings into a painting I will have to use the colours which I have enough of .

The historical loss of the female narrative and a lament to the barriers that grew from religious interpretation , a double edged sword for the female.

Looking at the work of Audrey Flack for composition ideas as her still life painting have a number of interesting messages and symbols to decode within them.

Moving into colour and still life , colours in religious paintings were a important element in implying meanings .

I have started my FMP looking at historical female figures in a religious context.