The Fort & The Pheasant's Family
These paintings are still lifes of an assemblage, where two found objects collide. The pieces of the assemblage are both found remains. The rusty old chunks of metal were found on the beach, fallen from the side of the cliff top fort in Newhaven. The others are the remains of a pheasant family, feathers and egg shells, found on the South Downs. The decaying metal chunks are the size of nests. So I placed the eggs on top of one and feathers on top of the other, creating a collision of opposites. A twisted nest, no harmony, a still of life showing the bad and good, family and war.
In the painting, the assemblages were on carpet, showing the human nest and the war and family that takes place within it.
They were also painted on two identical wooden boards, showing symmetry but separation.
The Hunterian Museum
1 - Ape Hand and Head
2 - Foetus Skeletons both around 7 weeks old
3 - Asian Elephant Skulls
4 - Female Reproductive Sheep Organs
5 - Mole Cut Open.
West Beach Chalk Paintings
Cliff Face
Still Life of Chalk
Materials used:
-Ground chalk with PVA glue and water
-Black chalkboard paint
-black acrylic paint
-charcoal
Painted on dining room carpet and canvas
Also some photos of messages engraved on the cliff face.
Collaborating with @prunellatt
Two paintings of Pru from life and stills from a film where she ballroom danced to The Blue Danube with a wickerman I made.
