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Reflections – My year in paintings 2016: part 2

January 2, 2017 by Lin Kerr Leave a Comment

Each year I do a whistle-stop-tour of my entire creative oeuvre. This is for my records really, but blogging it files it neatly and gives me a chance to share. Part 1 is devoted to my ‘daily paintings’ which ended up being more like 3-day paintings.

Here are the big vases that I started out with, lost my way on No.4 and came back to in December with something quite different. Looking at them now I can see what happened. I had an idea that I wanted to express – a concept of a large beautiful vessel on its own. However I wasn’t sure of my style or technique. So while each painting works well on its own, they don’t make up a ‘cohesive’ collection. I think I made the right decision in the end and that is just to let go and revisit later.

Stillness of a Chinese Vase
Stillness of a Chinese Vase 76cm x 38cm Feb 2016

 

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Stillness of a Chinese vase has a carved background and aluminium in the detail at the top.
I am a fabric junkie and after a lace painting course with Sophie Ploeg, I painted this one and I think it will always be an artwork that satisfied me on many levels.

Vase on a lace cloth
Vase on a lace cloth 76 x 38 March 2016

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I got caught up in the UCARE project and had to paint tulips, so although the vases were meant to be minimalist and simple, this one became a vase of flowers. Loved doing the glass reflections and painterliness and I felt the rubber stamped aluminium background worked well.

White tulips
White tulips 76 x 38 March 2016

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This one remains to be resolved because after painting the vase I hated what I’d done (not photographed). It will happen in due course, but you can see what I mean about a (non)cohesive collection – with the different colour schemes and styles. Individually, I am happy with them.

African Vase 76 x 38 unfinished
African Vase 76 x 38 unfinished

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I started one of an olive bottle and this needs total reworking and has not been photographed either. Then I did two massive tulip paintings – again part of the UCARE project and these now grace a home in Henley. I loved doing the tulip paintings and the way I had to interpret the subject, but they don’t really feel like my true style. You’ll see the small ones in the daily paintings.

Parrot tulip
White Parrot tulip and Open Parrot tulip – each 70cm x 50cm

After a 5 month break on large paintings, I have just completed Enamel jug with duck eggs, and I feel that this painting has an integrity that connects with the small jugs and berries. It is smaller and I hope to do a couple more with my enamel jugs for Artweeks. What pleased me the most was that my painting and brushstrokes took on a life of their own. It is painted on linen canvas (a first for me) and I loved the surface.

Enamel jug and duck eggs 28-12-2016
Enamel jug and duck eggs 28-12-2016

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