Snow on the Barbican Centre Roof Painting

I paint from my corner flat above the Barbican Arts Centre and this painting is the view of the roof of the Arts Centre directly below my balcony. It is covered in the first snow we had in December 2017 and this magically transformed the landscape into a white Brutalist wonderland. I often paint this same landscape in the heat of summer, where the air vents resemble an African village but on this day, the concrete of the roof was a soft luxurious carpet. It drew my attention to the wonderful forms, shapes and textures of this brutalist landscape which I attempted to capture using - as I often do - recycled reversed papers which are framed double-sided so you can see the reverse of the image and explore my process of employing colours from an earlier palette. In this way, I can use a palette paper of warm colours from a painting made in the summer and recycle it into a winter landscape - employing the colours and textures in much the same way as the architects of the Barbican did when they chose the materials for the Estate. In this way, this landscape fits the wider themes in my work of how the individual creates a space for herself with a vast landscape dominated by huge forms and how we begin to understand architecture and indeed, the modern City around us. I hope this painting will make you feel similarly reflective and that you will, as I do, look forward to the effects of the seasons on a concrete urban environment.

Painting:Acrylic on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:15.5 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in

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