#136: "For every ounce of light, there is darkness"

Oil on canvas.  

The canvas is taken up with a portrait of the subject’s head and shoulders.  Upon their forehead is painted a scene: A candle lighting up an otherwise dark place.  Within the candle’s flame can be seen an angel bearing the face of the subject.  In the dark at the edges can be seen many demons, also with the face of the subject, crawling towards the edge of the light - their hands, with long fingers and claws, reaching toward the light and the angel.

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After: Jones, Jonathan (2022) Interview: ‘An apparition came towards me’: Tracey Emin on seeing a ghost and building a new life in Margate. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/apr/25/tracey-emin-ghost-apparition-new-life-margate-cancer-nudes (Accessed 25/4/22).

#135: The meek will inherit

Oil on canvas.  

The canvas is divided into 64 equal, and square, parts.  32 of these feature a word, or two words, either painted black on a white background, or white on a black background, with the pattern alternating to form a chessboard (starting black on white in the top left hand corner).  

The words, written along the top two rows and the bottom two rows are: 

Row 1: confusion, pain, dread, dust, sand, fear, shame and mumbling.  

Row 2: low pay, low confidence, low spirit, low status, low hope, low light, low resilience and low ness.

In the central white four squares of the central two rows (4 and 5), alternating between those rows (ie, B4, C5, D4, E5, F4, G5), white on white, reads: living burial- life above their heads.

Row 7: loneliness, quietness, vicariousness, slowness, rudderlessness, listlessness, opaqueness and fecklessness.

Row 8: shadow, insularity, inability, rocks, stones, invisibility, cells and cold.

On the reverse of the canvas is written, in black pencil, “Or they will be happy with their lot; quite possibly happy with everything they have got.”

#134: Self-portrait XI

Remember yourself in a time when you did not look like everybody else.

#133: Out of time and place

Someone from a particular time and place but not looking as you would expect them to. 

Perhaps they are ahead of their time, or behind.  But there is something about them that does not ring true.  

Perhaps something out of step with their surroundings, perhaps just something unusual for the time.  

Have a think and see.

#132: People

A series of paintings of people looking how you would expect them to look.

#131: The Vibrancy of Colour

Imagine an array of colours and then go find those colours.  

Alternatively, think about an object in your head that you know to be colourful and then go find, and look at, that object.

Where are the colours brightest?  In your mind’s eye or your physical eye?

#130: It is what it is and it is beautiful for it

 An object.