Carla in Berlin! Here she is, taking a photo of a great sign with a boot on it.
My local, Gleadell Street Market.
Market near Omonia, Athens.
Another corner from a painting turned collage.
Detail / corner of a larger painting turned collage.
Detail of a large painting, attempting to capture the essence of the oldest and most crustiest convenience store I saw in Athens.
Left: Detail of a painting of a convenience store in Athens.
Right: Quick sketch for a clothing label in Athens / upcoming collaboration.
More examples of paperweights on works I liked.
Painting in the studio, this is during my final week at the Residency. I went into town and bought a King Sized sheet from a linen store, as there is no art store on the island. I selected ‘Luminous Red’ as the shade, as it seemed to be the shade that came up the most for me, like a background noise, but colour-wise. I watered it down to a light dye texture and slowly brushed the sheet, as if it was a monstrous filo pastry sheet or spanakopita. Mum took these photos; she visited for 5 days of Aagean Bliss.
My desk in the studio, which looks out to the ocean below. There’s a fairly steep drop with houses popping out along the coastline, fig trees creating sweet smelling borders between yards, goatbells twinkling in the background and warm salty dust blowing in gently.
Paperweights for the large gradient.
A large painting on cotton, a soft gradient to mimic the curtain in the room I was staying in - it was pre-cut by someone who needed just a corner of the sheet, I enjoy the unexpected shape of it, it allowed me to problem-solve the initial ‘issue’ of it not being perfectly rectangular, and I came up with the idea of having the gradient stretched over timber in the shape it was, an irregular organic one and having it suspended from a gallery roof - this is a concept yet to be fulfilled, I wonder if it will provide the same initial feeling of warmth and absorption that watching the curtain in the morning light originally had.
Dried paintings, with paperweights on top. The studio was open-air essentially, so it was risky to paint without paperweights nearby. I learned to love the weights on the corners of my works.
Pan Flute Paintbrush, with a big warm-up painting below it.
Film photo of a curtain I enjoyed watching in Athens, in the morning.