Hugh Marwood: Completed Studies

Sunday 22 November 2015

Completed Studies

'Untitled', Acrylics, Paper Collage, Adhesive Tape, Spray Enamel & Coloured Pencil
On Paper, 30 cm X 30 cm, 2015

Here are a few more of my recent, small-scale, paper-based pieces. There's not too much to say about these at the moment, other than I seem to be involved in making a series of them in a fairly similar vein. My hope is that they might constitute a supply of images that could stand alone if required, or provide the raw material for something more ambitious or extensively developed.

'Untitled', Acrylics, Paper Collage & Spray Enamel On Paper, 30 cm X 30 cm, 2015

One obvious idea is that they may be a springboard to larger paintings, but there's also the possibility they might be recycled more digitally, - perhaps by extracting elements for recombination with certain photographically-derrived motifs. I'm not sure exactly what that might result in ultimately, but both digital and more traditional printing methods feel quite intriguing. I've also been wondering about different ways of combining static imagery of this sort with moving video material. It's all fairly open ended at the moment, so for the time being, I'll just keep making them until it feels like time to find a way to scratch one or more of those itches.

'Untitled', Acrylics, Paper Collage, Adhesive Tape & Spray Enamel On Paper,
30 cm X 30 cm, 2015

Gratifyingly, there's already been a little interest in these from a couple of quarters. That suggests I may be onto something with them, even though, to me, they feel very like the start of something, rather than any form of conclusion. It's also mildly surprising, as my impression was they might appear a bit sombre for some tastes, - a bit bleak, even. Indeed, they may not necessarily come from the cheeriest of places, emotionally, although producing them has actually been a very positive process, in itself.

'Untitled', Acrylics, paper Collage, Spray Enamel, Ink & Pencil On Paper,
30 cm X 30 cm, 2015

Anyway, in lieu of any more explanation of things I haven't fully rationalised myself yet, I'll conclude this post with a few more of the photographic images which may, (or may not), have inspired them in one way or another. I certainly seem to be responding to a pretty grey range of subject matter at the moment, although there's still the odd splash of yellow (or lime green), to be found, even as winter draws on.