Willow World Series cont..  (1998-2001) Large Abstract organic paintings.              

As the series developed so did the composition. One morning while having breakfast I imagined the place matt as a blank canvas, the plate, knife and fork... and that is where the composition originated in the painting below. 

           

Perhaps some day I will use grapes, oranges, bananas, spilt milk, cups... etc to abstract other compositions.

 

 

 

Willow World.  Oil on linen. 38 x 78 inches. Spring 2000. Price £2700

I would have much preferred to have sculpted during the period of time while working on this particular painting.  But being only twenty seven years old at the time and not being in a position to be able to afford double material overhead, extra storage, and larger studio. I picked up my palette and carved out the composition.  I was thinking about Henry Moore as my paint brush nibbled and carved away at the blue organic forms. I thought of my brushes as termites eating away at a large piece of drift wood left on the shore of a ocean beach. The knife and fork to the left of the painting I  imagined as a female figure. And the circular arc like form was intended to be a necklace that was made from straw, lavender, and willow branches (something for Erika).

Willow World. oil on linen. 14 x 26 inches. March 2001. Price £565

Available throught Modern Artists Gallery

 

Willow World. Oil on canvas. 67 x 76 inches. Spring - Summer 2000

Private Collection of Graham Neale - London (SOLD)

 

 

 

 

 The two large windows in my studio gave me an amazing view of the Sky over Stratford Station. The clouds would dance across the canvas sky, and the rain drops eroded like dripping candle wax. Having such a large studio can be overwhelming. You can find yourself gravitating towards extra large canvases.  Everything has to be big...  otherwise it just seems to get lost in such a large space.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I had a solo exhibition at Tullo Marshall Warren (81 King's Road) in the Spring of 1999.  It was then that Kendall Langford first saw my work and started collecting my work. Kendall encouraged and helped me a great deal, and told Tiffiny Lendrum about me... a gallery in Los Angeles.

Willow World. Oil on canvas, 16 x 26 inches. Spring 1999. Price £560

Available through Modern Artists Gallery