Group crit - Dimensions.

Crit group with MSB and Andrew and Joe. 

Colour - discussed my paintings palette and that I had feedback from the degree show reflecting that my paintings read as historical traditional paintings and I wanted to play with layering acrylic and oil, playing with transparencies and colour layering - to see if they read differently. I like dark pallete's ( I find dark colours safe and comforting ) but don't want to be tied to them -  and I also like colours where the light bounces and glows so have been making small test pieces.

 

 

MSB confirmed a good time to push the dimensions of my painting, and suggested John O-Rourke - he paints in layers and never uses black as a lone colour, and is interested in the occult. Asked if I was interested in Pan, which I could take another look at. 

I felt that my paintings all have a complicit silence undertone - a generational acceptance of how women are from when we're introduced to the ideas of the witch. I'm trying to find something authentic in relation to matrilineal knowledge and how we used to be - I don't feel we can ever get back to how society was, as capitalism is so established, but does not accommodate for care in society (re children, people in need of care due to health or ability or age)

MSB referenced the window in my witch painting and its connection to the doorway in paintings from foundation - they do have a relationship, relating to an inside space, what's happening in it - and who's on the other side. 

Talked about cultural appropriation by people pertaining to be Wicca or pagan - the blurred lines between folk and witchcraft and the contemporary understanding of the witch and psychological impact of the witch trials on women today, through guilt, expectation and unquestioned social norms.

Referenced the black hog, in relation to a book of witch trials where the hog formed part of a trial against a women. The cartoonist exhibition that the curator went to, where he signed his name to indicate how many daughters were hidden in the painting. and how it was educational for her- helped her to look -so  I'm interested in working with the idea - MSB recommended Fiona Ray. 

Towards the end, MSB mentioned AI - and I'd explained that I thought it was a great idea to generate references, but I couldn't find a good free one - a few places recommended including photoshop generative fill. (What else would be in this area?). This would help me to take all of the areas of my research and see what an AI would assume them to be when creating an image. Really interested in this. 

Also still interested in gathering more photo references and abstract paintings with hidden things in - but I work in sequence and bounce between ideas so am happy to explore everything and see what takes me where.