I decided this weekend that I’m going to take a break from the piece I’ve been working on for several reasons. The first is just the amount of time it has taken to get to it’s current state, including research, reading and source photography, I’ve been working on this project since March and I’m getting a bit burned out looking at the same piece every time I go to the easel. The other reason is that the shows that it was due to go into seem to be a little up in the air, the last I heard about it was back in July and it as originally meant to be in September, I’ll post more about those exhibitions further down the line. I’m going to work away at it bit by bit over the next year while painting other works and it already has a new home once it’s finished. I got a little bit more done to the painting after I took the picture below but that’s about where it is.
This month I started getting photos for new paintings, there was 3 that I couldn’t choose between for one piece so they’ll be the images for a triptych, I’ve never painted a triptych before so I’ll see how that goes. This new body of work will start getting sketched out this week and they’ll be a larger scale than what I’ve been working on previously.
Last week, I had 3 small paintings in The Souls Noir Festival of the Dark Arts, which was curated by Sinéad Keogh and was held in Laragh House in Maynooth, Co. Kildare and starting this week I’ll be facilitating the workshops in The Dunamaise Arts Centre for the month of November.