153. A closer look: Ticket
Acrylic on canvases in adapted IKEA frame
Framed size 42.5cm x 32.6cm
£190
Exhibited at "Creative Moments - and elbow grease" 18th - 25th November 2023
Exhibited at "Members' Exhibition" 12th March - 11th April 2024
Exhibited at "71st Hertford Open" 27th April - 5th May 2024
Exhibited at "Last Christmas" 13th Nov - 18th Jan 2025
Not sure how this idea for a series of paintings emerged but there were several factors that appealed to me.
First off, this was to be my extra-curricular activity. Evenings in front of the telly could be productive painting time so long as the canvas was small enough. So, this was a new take on the multi-canvas pieces I’ve done in the past.
I had the canvases in stock and a couple of these IKEA frames so what to do with them?
I liked the idea of a ‘detail’ – where a view is given different meaning by what one concentrates the viewer on. Most common in the context of photos where perhaps a photojournalist will put a ring round an element of a larger photo to show a semi pixelated figure for some important reason. I wanted to address this genre in a new way. What are we looking at? What do we see when we look closer that we didn’t on the original? Perhaps a tear in someone’s eye gives different meaning in a long shot of many figures. In this instance I’ve used a common or garden train ticket. Do you really notice the repeated typography “National Rail” without showing this in a blown-up image? Or the fleck of paper emerging out the bottom of the ticket?
Treating the subject as a painting makes the mundane more important.
Technically it’s an interesting challenge too. The ‘miniature’ (7cm square) needs detailed work. While the larger canvas can’t escape these criteria either.
Hope to do another for the show which is in about 4 weeks’ time. Wish me luck.
Framed size 42.5cm x 32.6cm
£190
Exhibited at "Creative Moments - and elbow grease" 18th - 25th November 2023
Exhibited at "Members' Exhibition" 12th March - 11th April 2024
Exhibited at "71st Hertford Open" 27th April - 5th May 2024
Exhibited at "Last Christmas" 13th Nov - 18th Jan 2025
Not sure how this idea for a series of paintings emerged but there were several factors that appealed to me.
First off, this was to be my extra-curricular activity. Evenings in front of the telly could be productive painting time so long as the canvas was small enough. So, this was a new take on the multi-canvas pieces I’ve done in the past.
I had the canvases in stock and a couple of these IKEA frames so what to do with them?
I liked the idea of a ‘detail’ – where a view is given different meaning by what one concentrates the viewer on. Most common in the context of photos where perhaps a photojournalist will put a ring round an element of a larger photo to show a semi pixelated figure for some important reason. I wanted to address this genre in a new way. What are we looking at? What do we see when we look closer that we didn’t on the original? Perhaps a tear in someone’s eye gives different meaning in a long shot of many figures. In this instance I’ve used a common or garden train ticket. Do you really notice the repeated typography “National Rail” without showing this in a blown-up image? Or the fleck of paper emerging out the bottom of the ticket?
Treating the subject as a painting makes the mundane more important.
Technically it’s an interesting challenge too. The ‘miniature’ (7cm square) needs detailed work. While the larger canvas can’t escape these criteria either.
Hope to do another for the show which is in about 4 weeks’ time. Wish me luck.
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