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A little progress

11/12/2013

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So this is where I have got to after two weeks – fortyish hours– of learning to paint in tempera. For most of the image I have completed two of a minimum of three layers. The first layer thin, the consistency of watercolour.  The second, thicker, more like gouache, so that the light, mid and dark tones are set out. For the next stage, if I decide to finish the painting, I am on my own. This is, I think, where hours and days can be lost blending different tones together, using opaque but tiny almost invisible brushstrokes. There is such detail in the original to recreate. In particular, the hair of Chloris has individual strands of hair picked out as they flow over locks twisting in other directions. 

To be honest, I am not sure if I will finish it. I wanted to learn the technique so that that I can be more confident when I use tempera in my own work. I may keep it as a place where I can return when I feel the need to refine my technique, a sort of test bed. For now, I have a half-finished section of a Botticelli, that looks to me a little like an Art Nouveau poster, getting somewhat battered and bashed as I travel south down Italy.

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    Bridget H Jackson is a painter, currently travelling in Europe but usually based in London

    I re-present the familiar in my paintings. The canvas surface on which an image normally sits becomes the focus of the work through unpicking and sewing. Similar forms are repeated over and over again until the source imagery is unrecognisable. My work records the everyday passage of time, moments which would not normally merit attention, often directly through the very act of their making. 

    The materiality of the media I use is particularly important because my work is economical in its imagery. Over the past year I have started to make my own paints and dyes from minerals and plants.  I like the contrast of using very traditional means of painting in work which is outwardly abstract. 

    www.BridgetHJackson.com

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