This December I have another exhibition at The Saatchi Gallery, which will be my fourth there overall, and my third this year.
For this show, I am taking over two walls in their Prints & Editions gallery and taping all over the walls before hanging artworks on top. I will also present some of my ceramic sculptures there for the first time.
Below are some of the works I have created for the show.
The first piece is this Matisse-inspired work, the pose for which is taken from Matisse’s Blue Nude. (Below)
Blue Nude – Matisse
This is the first time I’ve had a model recreate a pose from an existing artwork, which made the whole thing loads easier to draw. I definitely plan on doing more of these portraits inspired by the greats, so if you have any suggestions please let me know.
As well as this piece, another new work for the show is this three-layered tape drawing below. I don’t have a title for this one yet, so let me know if you have any ideas for what I should call it.
Untitled Still Life
This still life is a three-layered work, so the foreground flowers were done on one layer of glass, the vase and mid-level flowers on another, and the background on a third. Once I’ve done the tape drawing on the glass I encase the whole thing in a clear resin (just to preserve the tape), and paint white anything within the boundaries of what I want to be opaque, so you can’t see the middle layer through the flowers on the first layer etc.
The little bust you can see is a portrait of Leo Tolstoy, just because he is great.
For more of my works at the Saatchi Gallery, go HERE
And to see how I plan to tape up the walls, go HERE
And for the Saatchi Gallery’s official website, go HERE