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Lucy Jones
Painting is like slowly taking bits of myself out of a box to examine them. I explore this in strong colour, looking at views of the outside world.
I use myself to find out about the funny and surprising, the awkwardness and ambivalence of looking and moving differently. I look at the hidden parts, which cannot be seen by the outside gaze. I work in the ‘space’ of a canvas with its defined boundaries where marks and colour can carry my expression. Sometimes I add objects to the painting, props and metaphors of life.
The other side of my work looks outwards to a world of landscapes and townscapes depicting the surface memories of life, as if we see the world not as it is but through our projections and hopes. The colour beguiles the viewer maybe offering escape or the huge romance with life as in ‘Flying Clouds’.
Lucy Jones July 2002
Painting is like slowly taking bits of myself out of a box to examine them. I explore this in strong colour, looking at views of the outside world.
I use myself to find out about the funny and surprising, the awkwardness and ambivalence of looking and moving differently. I look at the hidden parts, which cannot be seen by the outside gaze. I work in the ‘space’ of a canvas with its defined boundaries where marks and colour can carry my expression. Sometimes I add objects to the painting, props and metaphors of life.
The other side of my work looks outwards to a world of landscapes and townscapes depicting the surface memories of life, as if we see the world not as it is but through our projections and hopes. The colour beguiles the viewer maybe offering escape or the huge romance with life as in ‘Flying Clouds’.
Lucy Jones July 2002
 Flying Clouds 2001, oil & acrylic on canvas, 174cm x 213.5cm |
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