Artwork in the Studio

I am currently working on a commission proposal to create two site specific artworks on multiple prepared wood panels measuring when assembled, as closely as possible, the size of two facing walls.

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The goal of the project, worked upon by the client and myself together, is to create a kind of Secret Garden feel, influenced by Monet’s Nymphaea panels in the Orangerie in Paris, by photos I took in Giverny and by the client’s own photos of her beloved garden and pool. The space is interior but links two exteriors and might become a kind of winter garden…

 

The artworks will be created using collaged photographs, specifically reworked digitally, cut up and assembled across the panels. The canvases will be built up of many layers, creating a resonating depth and watery feel using graphic mark-making (in mixed media including graphite, charcoal and crayons,) and painterly gestures of water based colours (inks, acrylic paints, varnishes) applied in gentle washes and brush strokes, in an ‘aquatic, foliage and flower’ inspired palette. I see these colours being transparent and washes, and the collaged material being subdued and pushed back with multiple applications.