Hot Diggity!
January 22-31
January 22-31
February 1-8
8 MINI SERIES
The 100 painting collection breaks down into eight mini series (see below); on this page, I outline the parameters for each body of work to give you a sense of what's to come to help give a foresight into the piece(s) from the collection you may wish to invest in...
1. Cave Paintings
January 22-31 (10 paintings)
Exploring colour and texture within the pictorial language of the Lascaux cave paintings, this mini-series is celebrates the act of drawing/painting as an intuitive response to a mysterious world.
2. Anatomical Studies
February 1-8 (8 paintings)
Observational pencil and charcoal drawings within the classical tradition. These eight works will uncover the elegant anatomical truths of the horse.
3. Naive paintings
February 9-20 (12 paintings)
Now that the anatomy of the horse has been mapped, the stylistic pendulum swings to the other extreme with this opportunity to explore colour and wild expressive shapes in this 12 day gambol into a world of playful line and shape.
4. Classical
February 21-28 (8 paintings)
We now circle back to re-uptake the classical language founded in the 'Anatomical Studies' mini-series, building on it by introducing colour. This collection of eight figurative paintings will use prompts of Delacroix, Gericault and Rosa Bonheur.
5. Horses & People
March 1-12 (12 paintings)
Horses have been used for exploration and travel, racing, war and for leisure and this series will celebrate this relationship between horse and (wo)man over the millennia.
6. Symbolism & Mysticism
March 13-21 (9 paintings)
Developing on the 'Horses & People' theme, these works will move away from the figurative and incorporate the abstract, symbolic and geometric as an attempt to discover the psychic dimension of these mysterious creatures. Think William Blake, Pegasus and Shadowfax (Gandalf's horse)...
7. Abstract
March 22-31 (10 paintings)
This is a chance to completely break free from the figurative and use pattern, colour and expressive brushwork to deconstructing the image of the horse and make visible what lies out of sight but what is equally as real.
8. Running Free
April 1 - May 1 (30 paintings)
After 3 months of study and deep-diving into the visual and conceptual world of the horse, the finalé is when the parameters of theme are dissolved. With no restrictions on style or theme, these paintings will materialise what the psyche has visually and emotionally processed throughout the previous 70 days of work. Equally, the ideas that came up throughout the first 70 days but did not match the parameters of theme at the time now have a chance to run free!