Fahua Fan and Flowers
Sometimes it’s desirable to paint an object that I don’t own. In a way that’s insane because if you ever visit my studio, you will see that I own so many paintable things that I don’t ever need to buy another or waste time losing myself in a google search for antique ceramics! The thing is, it usually ends up teaching me something and leading to a beautiful find. Besides, I deserve the occasional moment of procrastination.
This Chinese Fahua ware pottery figure of Guanyin is on a sort of lotus base. There are crawling chilongs in the Fahua palette of deep aubergine, amber and turquoise. It’s from the late Ming period. I wish I owned her!
This painting was obviously about the colour and the tulips and Guanyin – Mercy – in a moment when there doesn’t seem to be much of that around. It was a complicated painting but that’s what I needed during these dark days.
Sometimes it’s desirable to paint an object that I don’t own. In a way that’s insane because if you ever visit my studio, you will see that I own so many paintable things that I don’t ever need to buy another or waste time losing myself in a google search for antique ceramics! The thing is, it usually ends up teaching me something and leading to a beautiful find. Besides, I deserve the occasional moment of procrastination.
This Chinese Fahua ware pottery figure of Guanyin is on a sort of lotus base. There are crawling chilongs in the Fahua palette of deep aubergine, amber and turquoise. It’s from the late Ming period. I wish I owned her!
This painting was obviously about the colour and the tulips and Guanyin – Mercy – in a moment when there doesn’t seem to be much of that around. It was a complicated painting but that’s what I needed during these dark days.
Sometimes it’s desirable to paint an object that I don’t own. In a way that’s insane because if you ever visit my studio, you will see that I own so many paintable things that I don’t ever need to buy another or waste time losing myself in a google search for antique ceramics! The thing is, it usually ends up teaching me something and leading to a beautiful find. Besides, I deserve the occasional moment of procrastination.
This Chinese Fahua ware pottery figure of Guanyin is on a sort of lotus base. There are crawling chilongs in the Fahua palette of deep aubergine, amber and turquoise. It’s from the late Ming period. I wish I owned her!
This painting was obviously about the colour and the tulips and Guanyin – Mercy – in a moment when there doesn’t seem to be much of that around. It was a complicated painting but that’s what I needed during these dark days.