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The end of my Berlin residency

2/11/2013

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I am now half-way through my time on Reside. It has gone so quickly. And, yet, I feel I have made some real progress since I started three months ago thinking that I would focus on experimenting with materials. Instead, I have rediscovered the simple pleasure of drawing tiny details of life, and then disrupting the resulting images using collage or sewing. As I prepare to reluctantly leave Berlin next week, ending my self-created residency, I am packing up a body of 20 collages on paper and 10 or so canvas drawings. I understand more clearly what I am trying to achieve through my work, partly through the process of writing it down here, and I have had some really positive feedback via this blog and from visitors. On Monday evening I will be presenting my work at an art critique at Werkstadt which will give me another opportunity to see how people respond to my work - old and new. I am spending a rainy Saturday afternoon preparing for it: taking photos in less than ideal circumstances, retaking them, and ordering my thoughts. 

I am not sure whether and what kind of work I will be able to make over the next couple of months. For the next few weeks I will be travelling through Germany, before a pitstop in the UK to pick up more winter clothes, and then onwards to Italy. I am going to spend two weeks in Florence on a traditional painting course where I am hoping to improve my technique (although, as we learn by copying old masters, I am not expecting to really make my own work). This blog may focus more on my response to the art that I see and read about.  I hope to write about Caspar David Friedrich, whose work I have seen a lot of over the past few months; Morandi, as my first stop in Italy is Bologna; and who and whatever catches my eye in Florence. I have small scraps on canvas and a sketchbook so I will post pictures of new drawings as I make them. 
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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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