Studio insights

Hanging paintings on the wall in the studio makes the room look more cheerful and gets them off the floor. When they are up there, you start to make links and relationships between them that you hadn't noticed before. Looking back at my work and reflecting on it helps me going forwards to create more work. Although my process is using what I have learnt so far and improvising with my materials, so each painting is always different, there are always things that connect them with me. In future I hope that critics will be able to recognise my work as distinctly mine and that my 'voice' shows through. It is fascinating to see my work curated by someone else in a group show, like the Skelmanthorpe Library Summer Open. I submitted three very different paintings and they have been placed with other artists' work in the exhibition in a way that they are having a conversation. Next month I start on the Turps Correspondence Course and I hope my painting will develop in exciting ways with the guidance of a mentor.