Looking back on younger works can feel embarrassing - feels her life is radically different and wants to move on to feel freer in her work
English establishment struggles to focus on too many artists at once - this is why only a few artists get to stay in the limelight this way
Doesn’t get caught up in traditional, happy to use whatever works
Had a break down when younger and the smell of oil brought back bad memories so now uses acrylic
Uses Edwardian erotic photographs as a base for her painting forms
Doesn’t go straight to big white canvas, starts practising until a strong, confident image has formed
Finds life drawing much easier to work from. Images are harder to get anatomically correct - practice and learning gives you the language and understanding
Successful artists can’t just sit in the gallery and paint, it takes much more than this, with help, to be seen
Wants to be being creative but finds the other pressures crushing
Glad she hasn’t had kids, because she is worried that she would not be able to commit to her work, or be a good mother as one will take from the other
Gets super nervous about the painting, even knowing she will paint over it
‘Thing about painting is if you’re not feeling strong or tough it’s really hard(?)”
Work is very organic and she takes her time doing little bits on many paintings at once, and she lets her paintings develop but by bit over time
If she doesn’t work her body stiffens up
“I have to trust myself”
Uses tiny gallery models to try and lay out the show, pretty common for big galleries for them to travel to the artists to work this out
Curating is about an ethos or a theory to change people’s perceptions of looking at something
Not a control freak, but like to be in control - delegation
Very confident in her meanings and convictions
Take risks, don’t rest on your laurels. Figure it where the art is coming from to empower as an artist, keeps more excited and more engaged
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