Over the past few weeks I have concentrated (between bouts of feeling rather unwell) on getting on with the initial canvases whilst waiting for the first test pieces of digital printing. At last these are ready for me to collect and so soon they will be available to me in the studio. Hopefully this will have a subtle effect on the project as a whole creating a fresh dialogue between the painted and the photographed.
I am already in the process now of translating the photo collages into paint - this isn't done slavishly but rather more freehand with the studio dividing me from the production of the initial collage. For a time I have been thinking that the site of both activities might be better were it the same location. Now I'm not so sure...the distance may be helpful in rendering the image as a part of a sequence of pictures that each have their own life but can also be viewed as a whole.
One of the first two digital collages to be collected later today is depicted here. This is the deliberately crude collage that resulted from the photographic material collected in Coleorton.
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