The Reside Residency
  • Reside Blog: Maribel Mas
  • Reside Blog: Serena Smith
  • Reside Blog: Richard Devereux
  • Reside Blog: Kate Beck
  • Reside Blog: Marion Piper
  • Reside Blog: Claudia Böse
  • Reside Blog: Bridget H Jackson
  • Reside Blog: Michaela Nettell
  • Reside Blog: Anthony Boswell
  • Reside Blog: Susan Francis
  • Reside Blog: Corinna Spencer
  • Reside Blog: Karl England
  • apply
  • contact
  • Blog

September's drawings

2/10/2013

0 Comments

 
A quick post from me to show what I have been doing in the last month - that's my intention at least and I hope I shan't be publishing it a thousand words later. These drawings are in various states of development. Most are still works in progress, and probably will be until they are pushed from my attention by something new. I do like to keep tinkering. 

September has been a month in which I have focussed on drawing weeds. Why? As I mentioned in an earlier blog Disruption and Influences I like their tenacity, infiltrating the urban, literally breaking through tarmac sometimes. They are often overlooked, and as a stranger in a new city I am drawn to this aspect of them. I have enjoyed discovering the complexity of their form through drawing. Things that I thought were familiar simple shapes, like nettle leaves, have been revealed as far more intricate when I have tried to put them onto paper or canvas. 

Autumn has definitely arrived here. Though sunny I only managed to draw yesterday in bursts of about an hour before retreating inside to get warm. And the weeds are already showing signs of retreat, some turning brown and withering. Rather than making more drawings my focus will probably shift to working on these further - adding elements from the city, distant views, to break the composition and perspective. I have already sought to break down perspective in some of them through the way in which I added colour, flowing the same colour over different planes of the structure of a plant, or between several plants. Then comes collaging or sewing for the canvas pieces to truly break down and disrupt the image. 

All photographs: Bridget H Jackson
Sorry for the poor quality of some of the images - photographing my work has never a strong point and the light here is pretty poor. 
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    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

    Archives

    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.