Original artwork description:

Interviewer:

'What and when was the most difficult painting you’ve ever painted?'

Hue:

'In Lockdown, painting a ‘girl on a beach wrapped in a blue’.

You were not allowed to go anywhere. So there was this great pressure to not waste time one had been begrudgingly gifted. Then the added pressure of the unknown world we had just stepped into. Mentally these two aspects nearly destroyed me. As I bet it did most people.

I chose to paint 'A girl wrapped in blue'. Based on an online stock photo of a girl on a beach, wrapped in a blue towel. Plus due to the image of the face lacking details, I used aspects of my own face as reference.

I wanted to use the time to paint like the old masters. Give myself a once in a lifetime challenge. To choose a modern image and transform it into something almost biblical. So the towel looked like period drapery. Something I have never attempted before. In hindsight, now realising my mental space at the time. This was definitely not a great idea. I got so angry at one point and sanded off the face and started again. I remember I did that twice, but to the whole thing!

I am now left with something I am very proud of.'


Oil on canvas board with a gloss varnish finish.

Materials used:

Oil paint and varnished

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