Endings

Endings 

My final paintings showed in the end of year Foundation show at The Royal Drawing School featured three morose girls who live in the mirror. Each part of the triptych is a window into a distorted world, boxed in by its glass edges. Trapped there live three bored, sunburnt girls who play idly with things they have found, waiting for something to happen. Sometimes they sulkily edge into one another’s frames when the others aren’t looking. 

 Detail of triptych

 Studio space

Dusky fox girl

Artist Residency at Dumfries House, Scotland

Our foundation course got to visit Dumfries for a week of en plein air in the greenhouses, fields and gardens, despite two days of torrential rain. We were painting outside everyday: River-paddling, roses, rain and red oil paint on my best coat for which I will never forgive Jack.

Jack in the greenhouse

Rose Garden

LEAFY PRIORITIES

Homage to my cactus plants which will probably die this summer from neglect.

MY LITTLE PONY

This is a small plastic toy of mine with really soft bright blue hair, on which I used to scrawl angry messages in gel pen when I was sulking as a child. It is a small oil sketch on canvas.

SUMMER READING 

The Accidental by Ali Smith 

Perfume by Peter Suskind 

The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild 

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson 

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
Vanity Fair by William Thackeray 

Women, Art And Society by Whitney Chadwick   (currently reading)

AND SKETCHBOOKS TO FOLLOW

Stay cool this summer

-G