Acrylic mixed-media painting on box canvas
50cm x 50cm
framed
Take On Federer
Take On Federer is a painting from the Second Nature series that concerns the landscape as a personal space through which I seek to explore themes of society, self and change.
The collection itself reprocesses the 27 years I spent in the newsroom at the London Evening Standard. It examines the noise of constant (often quite negative) information present in society and juxtaposes it with vibrant explorations of feelings.
Formed from many layers of mixed-media collage and acrylic paint, Take On Federer dances between abstraction and representation.
The painting deconstructs and pieces back together my work as a journalist — and employs collaged newspaper cuttings from stories that I’ve either written or sub-edited. The words Take On Federer, separated from the original headline, peep through from an earlier layer.
This process of selection replicates my former role by editing what does and doesn’t make it to the canvas.
