Here are my last 4 studies for paintings done in the remaining few days before the final hand in date, (done as a series, using my own photos).
‘Wrapped’, Oil on paper, charcoal 70 x 100cm
‘Wrapped and Twisted’, Oil and charcoal on paper, 70 x 100cm
‘Clutch Diagonal’ Oil and charcoal on paper, 70 x 100cm
‘Big Twist’ Oil and charcoal on paper, 70 x 100cm
This EP, ‘Mortal Tongues’, was composed and performed live for the Million Tongues festival run by Steve Krakow (illustrator, promoter, music historian / writer, musician) in Chicago in July 2020. This is a studio recording, of the same thing – all recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Jon Seagroatt, with lyrics and co writing/ cover design by myself:
EP Mortal Tongues: 2nd and 4th Tracks ‘Traps‘ and ‘Frayed’ – my lyrics about painting and fabrics. Collaboration with my husband Jon Seagroatt, including cover design (my photo image, Jon’s font and text). (Please click on the name ‘Mortal Tongues’ in blue, to see all 4 tracks).
‘Folded Circles Black’ Acrylic and gessoed folded canvas on canvas, 61cm x 61cm
‘Folded Circles #2’ Oil, acrylic, charcoal, shredded gessoed cotton canvas, glued on canvas, H 123cm x 181cm x 5.5cm
Folded Circles #1 Oil, acrylic, charcoal, shredded gessoed reclaimed cotton canvas, glued and string stitched on canvas H 129cm x W 122cm x D 5.5cm
Brushy circles on folded paper, oil paint.
Unfolded saturated edit
Unfolded unsaturated edit
‘Mama’s Eye’ Oil and charcoal on canvas, 88 x 60cm
‘Floating Corona’, Oil on paper 100cm x 70 cm
‘Hard Pressed 2’ Oil on paper, 29cm x 42.5cm
‘Hard Pressed’, edited photograph
‘Hard Pressed’, Pen and Ink A6 size sketch for larger painting
‘Red Corona’ Oil on paper sketch
‘Yellow Corona’ Oil on paper sketch
‘ Big Polka’, (digital print photograph 112cm X 80cm)
‘White on Black’ (30 x 46cm) Detail. Oil and gesso on scoured canvas.
‘White on black’ (30 x 46cm) Oil and gesso on scoured canvas.
‘Shirt #3’ (112cm x 80cm) Oil, insulating tape on canvas
‘White Gash’ (30 X 46cm) Acrylic and gesso on thin canvas, slashed and scoured.
‘Black Slash’ (30 x 46cm) Oil on thin canvas, slashed and scoured
Eric Mack’s piece from ‘Vogue Fabrics’ exhibition, 2017
‘Big Stitch’ pencil rough
Buttonholed test with painting pouch
My Corner @ Pop Up show
My first ever etching
‘Otoshiana’ back view stitched recycled oil on canvas
Start of disintegrated wall
Abstracted ‘Scrim Stitched’ painting test
Beverley Semmes painting – ink on magazine page
Richard Diebenkorn’s 1975 work ‘Ocean Park#79’ Oil & charcoal on canvas
Sheila Hicks ‘Yarn Fountain’
Otoshiana Front View
Floor of small room in Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
Painting pouch & nozzle test detail
Painting pouch & nozzle test
Finished ‘Patchwork Psyche’
Catherine Anyango drawing of ‘Woman Dying in Aleppo’
Otoshiana stage 2
Mark Bradford with sweeping broom
Building site 3 Photograph
Hand stitching the ‘Wall’ painting
Cut down the lines to separate the pieces, then press them flat. This makes a curved finished edge, instead of a sharp edge. Add seam allowance to attach each piece to the next.
‘Shelf’ bodice
Detail of Patchwork Psyche for BIG painting
Big dress
Printing my first Etching
Me & my Pop Up exhibition
Draw on the seamlines and number the pieces. (Overhead view).
Otoshiana
Mark Bradford
Finished Otoshiana with Pattern Magic book
Start of ‘Snipped and Curved’
Fineliner drawings of stages of garment make up
Print of Charmaine’s dress idea for collaged back ground image of ‘Patchwork Psyche’
Scrim with v thinned paint left to trickle, and masked stitches’ peeled off afterwards
Cut out the base below the shape
Test for big piece: collaged colour print, piece of cowhide, printed fineliner drawings of garments, strips of insulating tape ‘stitches’, charcoal, on paper
Laser cut holes in cowhide
Dribbled very thinned paint test for large piece
1. Make the shape you want, and attach to a flat base.
The Hummingbird Tree by Mark Fairnington
Mark Bradford layered ‘painting @ Hauser & Wirth gallery
Dan Sturgis painting
Dan Sturgis painting
The paper tryout version for ‘Patchwork Psyche’
More maker pen tests on cowhide
Dan Sturgis painting
Otoshiana -finished shape in flexible material.
Detail of marker pen painting of test piece for ‘Patchwork’
Demonstration of litho printing marks
Fresco artist Francesco Clemente
Oscar Murillo
Detail of ‘Big Stitch’
From the ‘Propped’ series by Alan Uglow
Leather marker pen tests
Building site 2 Photograph
Nyokitto
Gessoed heavyweight canvas ‘Snipped & Curved’
‘Flora, woman picking flowers with a cornucopia’, in the ruins of Pompeii, 1-45 AD
Building site 1 Photograph
Mark Bradford
First lithoprint
Cowhide leather hole punched and threaded abit, just so that I could see the effect
Bobbie Seagroatt 