Awakening Print

This is part of a series of works where the starting point was a longing just to paint the physical body. I used myself more or less as the model but it’s not about self portrait. Rather it’s more anonymous than that. I just worked from drawings in the mirror as a starting point. Then I began collating the basic format of the painting out. Meaning then I added the images of the rooms and in this case of the fruit packaging from Waitrose. However as the picture began to take shape I started to realise what I was trying to get at through the language of art. That is that I was longing to put together a painting about the feeling of being alive and using the settings of home to place that.