Blue Masks

2013

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I never painted, I did not know it was something I could do.  However in October 2012 I took it up. 

I started the blue mask series following a technical drawing course at Lavender Hill Studios. 

The first in the series, 'My Crying Mask', came along by chance.  I was re-painting an image I had made in the class when I tried just sticking paint to the underpainting in an impasto style.  It looked a complete mess.  But the next day, when I returned to it, without thinking I started sculpting the paint, I was moved by the process and gradually this beautiful face emerged.

Sine then I have passed through several emotions with a brush in hand a few of which are posted here.  Despair, saddness, anger all here, as archeypes, familiar to all.