Imagination 2012 Collage

Fascination with the unpredictable movement of paint is a continuing investigation along with photography. Negotiating between the image and the paint, as an abstract object is a repetitive theme, the paint plays a key role that works against the photographic image. The initial confrontation with the paintings gives an uncertainty to what is going on, which parts are photograph and which are painted, collaging flowers onto each other creating floral patterns that aren't meant to exist as one, adds to the uncertainty. Initially the colour and organic shape in the flowers were captivating, as the style of painting used didn't work with dynamic straight lined imagery. Using the paint fluidly with plenty of movement, when drying it gets to a point that the paint gets fixed to the photograph yet there is still movement. This plays against the stationary photograph, a static image that was originally a living thing. There is then the idea of the abstract using flowers as a reference creating something that is my own. Along with paint and the image being an ongoing enquiry, increasing the size of the surface is the next thing that I am going to explore; this will vastly change the action of painting bringing to the painting some exciting and new mark making.