Original artwork description:

This work is part of a 12 month-long painting project (20 January 2020 - 20th January 2021) in which I set out produce a new body of work without having any preconceived ideas of what the work would eventually look like. The idea being that by getting into the studio and just putting brush to primed surfaces, new forms, themes and ideas would reveal themselves. And I've not been disappointed with the results. I have also found this to be a good time for experimenting with different painterly techniques. As such you'll notice that some of the works in this series look very different from one another.

'Embryswirl' is one of the few abstract pieces in the series. The titles derives from the fact that as I was painting it, the swirl reminded me somewhat of an embryo.

Almost all of the paintings in this series are painted directly to the painting's surface with brush and oil paint, rather than being pencilled in beforehand. I really like the immediacy of this approach. You can often end up with a piece that has a vibrancy that you might not have got if you were being more considered and calculated.

These oil paintings are mostly painted on small, wall mountable, plywood or chipboard plaques (recycled form pieces of Victoria and Albert Museum packing crates), or on old book covers and recycled pieces of primed mount board (recycled from the V&A museum's Paper Conservation Department and from their Picture Framing Dept.). This one is painted on mount board/card.

Materials used:

oil paint

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