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emerging blooms …

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Mixed-media on canvas, 100x100cm. © Mari French 2016

Mixed-media on canvas, 100x100cm. © Mari French 2016

After struggling with a couple of canvases this week, I was beginning to lose the plot with this one. Remembering what I’d recently been advised* – ‘Don’t let your painting know you’re scared of it’ – I threw caution to the wind and began editing the image by vigorously covering certain areas with paint, then adding a variety of marks with oil sticks, paint pens and ink pencils. 

Some marks were robust, some delicate and twirling or meandering. Several of the latter seem to be suggesting etoliated, wiry but fragile blooms? I love this colour palette, luminous, soft and atmospheric.

Standing back, I’m quietly excited by this one.

 

* Emily Ball, artist & tutor.

painting with a lens…

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Sometimes I work with a camera (see my photo gallery in the menu).
Images from a recent break in mediaeval Lavenham in Suffolk, which is full of half-timbered buildings from the 14th century onwards. I love finding the overlooked or unnoticed view hidden in old places. These are all as found, created ‘in-camera’.

Little Hall, Lavenham. Digital photo. Abstract impression.

Little Hall, Lavenham. © Mari French 2016

Little Hall, Lavenham. Abstract digital photograph.

Little Hall, Lavenham. © Mari French 2016

Little Hall, Lavenham. Abstract digital photograph of old door numbers.

A previous incarnation. Little Hall, Lavenham. © Mari French 2016

Guildhall, Lavenham. Abstract digital photograph of old railway ticket box.

Guildhall, Lavenham. © Mari French 2016

Detail, Little Hall, Lavenham. Digital photo.

Detail, Little Hall, Lavenham. © Mari French 2016

Candlestick, Little Hall, Lavenham. Digital abstract photo.

Candlestick, Little Hall, Lavenham. © Mari French 2016

Web, Guildhall, Lavenham. Digital photo.

Web, Guildhall, Lavenham. © Mari French 2016

and another…

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… after a few ‘failures’ and much gnashing of teeth this week (plus getting chased around the studio two days in a row by a large hornet), this one emerged. Again mixed media on paper, but I haven’t come up with a title yet.

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