24 February 2019
Week Four
This week continues along a similar line of thought. Automatic and gestural, accidental and beautiful. I prepared 140 pieces of paper ranging in size from a stamp or thumbnail to A4, each time doubling every ten or twenty pieces. I started with the smallest size. I have never before painted on such a small scale. It was a challenge and definitely put a whole new perspective on things. 10 paintings is not enough to get properly used to painting a certain size, that much has become very clear. Each time I went up a size I was confronted by completely new problems, or possibilities you could say!
Among a few others, for me, this painting in particular stood out from the rest…
I have a 220x180cm canvas in my studio which is standing unpainted against my studio wall. As a size comparison, I worked out that it was a similar transition from my smallest, stamp-size painting, up to an A4 page. The exponential growth of ideas and possibilities between those sizes is truly mind blowing. My main aim for this term was to discover what it means to paint big and working my way up seems like a logical approach.
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