Reports and catching up with LW at the exhibition

Wrapping my head around the report writing. 

 LW studied on Fine Art BA with me and came to see the exhibition and studio space today - it was great to talk to another oil painter - she loved the collage approach to displaying my artwork and commented on the annotations being visible. We had a chat about text in artworks - How much text is too didactic or changes the work .. but annotations can be really interesting in work 

This is welcome feedback as I left keywords and a few scribbled notes which reflect some key themes and thought processes but don't take over. They are clues that you have to look for in the work.

We spoke about the paintings that she leant towards and she liked some of the same values that have been picked up in crits. The small resolved an unfinished pieces. We both agreed that they're more interesting than the 'finished' composed painting of the child witch.

  

LW mentioned that it'd be interesting to make card designs but this takes my practice into a different direction and she aired caution due to the connection with the witch. It's a complicated response that the 'witch' is a real consideration in terms of what the artwork might be reduced to if I overtly reference it in my work.