I am starting this blog with the aim of updating once a week or so with updates on my art practice and other things art related that interest me....I hope you enjoy it.
For a few years now I have kept my old paint palettes, tear off palettes, bits of old card or plastic that I have mixed paint on ....the evidence of the effort that has gone into each successful and unsuccessful painting I have done - convinced that I would use them in some way. Recently I started cutting them up in deliberate sections and then working into each piece as a new painting. I am really pleased with the results and am working on arranging them in a way that somehow makes the whole greater than the sum of the parts. When people see them they usually pick out a favourite and that's pleasing because I feel that I have had a little relationship with each one. They are like little individual gems to me!
I realised I like both the small scale (each piece approx 4 x11cm) and the slightly stained glass effect when you start to put them together. It has inspired me to start a project on trees in a similar fashion. More on that later....
Here you can see some of the cut up sections
