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United Kingdom
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 29.9 W x 21.7 H x 1.6 D in
This painting is part of my Symbiont series, portraits of friends merging with trees. The Symbionts are inspired by the cracks in the pavement where trees take root, in the decay and rebirth of the world. They emphasize our interconnectedness with the other living things that make up our planet, and highlight the decisions we need to make if we are to survive as a species. In our post-industrial world we’ve lost our connection to the Earth- but today many people are looking to re-establish this connection. Green burials, having trees planted on your grave or having your ashes fertilize a tree, are an ancient concept that is newly popular; people today are interested in becoming trees after their death. This painting portrays Tilly merging with a yew forest. One will grow upon the ruins of another. The past and the future occur simultaneously. Yew trees are signifiers of immortality. They are some of the oldest organisms on the planet. It’s not possible to date them exactly due to their rotting on the inside and growing out from themselves, but it is thought that the oldest ones in Britain are at least 4,000 years old, and possibly much older. They were revered by the Celts, who associated them with immortality, regeneration, rebirth and transformation. They are one of the most toxic plants around- just breathing their dust in can be fatal- and yet they are life-saving- taxol, a powerful anti-cancer drug, has been made from a compound found in their bark.
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:29.9 W x 21.7 H x 1.6 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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In my paintings I explore community, interdependence, and interconnectivity, especially regarding humanity’s place in its cities, with the Earth, and in the cosmos. I use acrylic photo transfer as the foundation of my paintings, a technique that I have been perfecting for the past five years. I select images from photographs that I have taken, in order to develop an idea or emotion. It’s important to me that I am the one who has taken the source photograph, as it gives me a direct connection to the image - the image is something that I have been in front of and had direct experience with. These images range from candid shots of my friends that have an aesthetic interest to photographs that are posed specifically to express a certain idea. I manipulate the photographs digitally, often combining several shots, until the image is one that I’m excited to work with. I then create the under-painting by painting directly onto a black-and-white laser print with acrylic, before transferring it onto the canvas with acrylic gel medium or gesso. The transfer at this point resembles an old-fashioned hand-tinted black and white photograph. From there I build up the painting with layers of oil paint, taking care to react to what occurs in the painting as it develops out of the original source photograph. Sometimes I will spend hours staring at the painting to understand where it wants to go. Each painting becomes a voyage of discovery; each portrait becomes as much about me as it is about the subject. In this way I combine photography and painting- photography which has the ability to capture a fleeting instant in time, a moment that is soon lost forever. Painting then allows me to subjectively explore that moment, colouring it with memories, dreams, and hints from my own subconscious.
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