Thursday, 7 February 2013

PAOS

Peterborough Artists' Open Studios!
The application is in and I'm planning the usual upheaval of the house to stage my 3rd PAOS event in my home with fellow artists Veronica Leontyeva and Emma Raffle. I will be showing plenty of new works and have realised I work in definite colour theme blocks: this is the year for pale green and yellow! And a bit of red.....
Red Paradise Bird Fragment

Chinese fabric inspired paintings

Chinese Peony and Chrysanthemums:
This is a small painting I did over the Christmas period, 'just to please myself'! Elements are taken from Chinese brocade fabrics I have collected over the years. I have used my usual hand made Thai paper which I have glued to a small canvas instead of a panel. This piece is varnished rather than resined so will be ready for sale as soon as the varnish dries!
Chinese Peony and Chrysanthemums
Dimensions: 30cm x 30cm

Yellow Chrysanthemum Fragment:
This is a new experiment for me; adhering the Thai paper onto a 'fragment ' of my own hand made paper. I can paint in quite fine detail on the Thai paper, but not on my own paper, so for this small scale fragment I've made a combination. The Thai paper 'felts' onto the base paper really well and the irregular edges of the 'fragment' were maintained, which is important. I will be creating this as a wall mounted piece: resined on both sides to form a thin 'sculpture' that will be braced on the back with wood, from which the piece will be hung.

Yellow chrysanthemum Fragment
1st Stage: 'felting' the Thai paper onto my own hand made paper

2nd Stage:  the main sections are painted with some additional motifs to be added when this layer is dry.