Candy/09.10.19

Candy, is the first large scale piece for this academic year. It is painted with acrylic paint, on pink linen, a found material sourced second hand. My intentions with this piece changed throughout the making however is was a useful starting piece to learn more about my innate habits when going to make a painting. For me this highlighted the question of colour palette and why I am continuing to paint landscapes in a exaggerated and pretty way. Amy Sillman in “On Colour”, discusses how the painters colour palette, to a certain extent is influenced by the manufactures of paint and the shops we source it from. Similarly with digital art work, the colours are pre determined by the software. Having said that, there is still a large range of tubes of colour, and with knowledge of the colour wheel, the paint is easily mixed in to endless colours and different shade ranges. so, this led to the question of why are these soft, light hearted colours featured so heavily in my work, why did I pick a barbie pink background and why paint the clouds so softly and create a romanticised view of our rural environment. For some reason I am drawn to these colours, not just in art, but in everyday life, its just the colour palette that I find satisfying. The colours are common in our society and often associated with trends, aesthetics, and fashion, so this could be a possible explanation. That is something familiar and present in our day to day lives. This could be interpreted as the painting being an amalgamation of what I’m consuming in society, the constant presence of sites like Instagram, (things like this I am engaging with on a daily basis and is hard to avoid), media and what is seen in retail, combined with my environment.