Decoupage as expression
Projekt Rattloch Number 25.
From Frustration to Printing to Art
On a standard Tuesday, I felt intense boredom at work. So I decided to express some random thoughts down in a document and printed them out.
If I wasn’t an artist, it would probably come across as crazy.
There was another expression around my inner conflict between art and my day job but I’ve lost the file.
So, in the studio soon after, I started decoupaging these print-outs to a canvas and a wood board, well actually, it’s an old door from something.
This itself was extremely cathartic!
Then the day after I added another layer to the decoupage.
Calming, grounding, relaxing, freeing, forgetting.
Soon after, I was drifting off to sleep to recover from illness, when some dots joined up in my mind. I had an old unfinished piece that I’d abandoned and I had the flash of inspiration to paint it entirely red and title it “In defence of the Devil”. It had three levels, first a horned smiling figured, then I overlayed a coffin with a deceased figure in it, taken from the real-life experience, then came the red layer. I haven’t seen it dry yet so I might add another layer and show you next week.
Part of the inspiration was watching Red by John Logan, a theatre play about artist, Mark Rothko.
Thank you for being here. Until next time. Share your thoughts with me in the comments,
Good bye for now,
P.S: Before I forget, the 2029 vision for Swindon.
I was part of the ideation session a couple of weeks ago (I hate that word but you get what I mean):
I love peering into your artmaking process. Swindon were smart to invite you to the, um, ideation session.