Foetal work

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.