Studio work is going slowly but surely. It has been good to start another painting, and today our painting technician mixed up some gesso, so I am going to work on two small egg tempera paintings alongside my large works. I have been thinking about how to display my documentation in the gallery. I want to use magnets on an aluminium sheet.Tomorrow I hope to create a frame for this sheet of metal. I will then start to make the magnets. Thinking about votives too. And nothing to do with work...I got my international student card today !!!!!!!!! YES.
Yesterday was the big trip up to London. We met at the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood and from there we went to 'Deborah House' where our tutors Bob Matthews and Jost Munster have their studios. They had organised some studio visits for us. In total we visited five studios including their own. Each artist told us about their studio practice and their work. They also spoke of how they organised their work/ life balance, and how they came to be in their present situation. It was so interesting to hear their different strategies for generating work. Mike Samuels always works directly on his wall sculptural pieces, never planning or drawing in preparation for their creation. Jost on the other hand always draws and plans his work by making smaller versions first, often using gauche. Bob does meticulous preparation work before carving into a lino print block. In his current piece his imagery was created digitally in numerous layers on the computer first, then projected onto the Lino. We visited two other artists. Julian Wakelin who works in oils to create small abstract paintings. His paint palette was awesome! A large slab of glass with rich dark colours spread all over it reflecting the colours in his paintings. We then popped into to see Bridgit Olando's studio briefly. She is an old friend of mine. Her work and studio was a stark contrast to the others. Bright colours and super realistic images. A white floored studio with wicker chairs and paper butterflies hanging from the ceiling! When we had finished at Deborah house we all went to lunch in a local turkish restaurant, before dispersing to visit different exhibitions. I chose to go to the Barbican to see 'The Bride and the Bachelors' I thoroughly recommend this!! A totally brilliantly curated show. There I saw the Rauschenberg painting inspired by Duchamp's 'The Bride' Well worth the visit just for that!
Jost and Bob's studios
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