Over the two month break I began working on my own experience, rather than painting family members in the landscape.I started with my birth and this one is the second version, with references to both Bacon and Picasso but finally in a language of my own. It's about 6'x4' and took me an afternoon to do, it is both beautiful and horrifying and I can now hardly bare to look at it.
This was the first version with the giant forceps below, about 6'x4', seemed to take forever and still it looks too pre-meditated, and has none of the 'ouch' that the one above gives me.
Out of this process I started to form this poignant image of a new born in a sky of black on a 2'x2' sized canvas. And that is my next step - to work out how to make my blacks more luminous and then put this little figure at the bottom of a huge canvas.
