Local Exhibitions: making new work for old frames

This summer I will be putting work in five exhibitions. I hung the first last Sunday, in the Colne Gallery at Colchester Hospital.. I have a thing about recycling old work so will show pieces once or twice and then make sure I have new work to show. I have plenty of framed pieces that have only been seen by one small audience. So this summer I decided it was time to take old work out of frames and make new work to fit the frames. The work on the left is new work. 5/6 pieces are oil on paper. The larger pieces are pastel on paper.

Quenching Orange Thirst, 20 x 18 cm, oil on gessoed paper.

I find choosing which work to exhibit really difficult. When I get a form that asks for titles and prices, well in advance of a show, I find it excruciating. One solution I have is to choose ambiguous names for things that gives me scope to make new work. I did that for another upcoming show, later this month. I titled the work, ‘Ceramic Pets’. Below is the piece of work I finished today for a frame which I am having a mount cut for. I still have time to change my mind or make new work..