Lately, I’ve been really enjoying naming work after song
titles or lyrics…its not necessarily going to become a permanent habit, but for
now I really love the way connecting a painting to a song can enrich the whole
experience for me.
It's been the way with a few paintings that I’ll be working
on it, knowing roughly what I want to say in the particular concept but not
really being able to verbalise much….when I’ve ether listened to a song or a
song has popped into my head and a light bulb has gone on….like “ah that’s what
I was trying to say….you took the words right out of my mouth”, from there on
in that song has become a sort of theme tune to the painting.
With ‘More than this’
The title comes from a Peter Gabriel song
This is a favourite of mine…although the song itself
doesn’t really speak about the subject matter of my painting, I felt the title
summed it up nicely.
‘Precious Things’
You’ve just gotta love a bit of Tori!
Admittedly, I’m not always sure I know quite what she’s getting
at but I do love her delivery!
Maybe I’ve got the complete wrong end of the stick but to me
'Precious Things' talks a lot about how hard it can be being a girl, growing up and
stepping into womanhood in the world we live in….
In my painting, I was very much thinking about this and about
how we parent our daughters.
‘Gold Dust’
Another Tori!
This song is just so beautiful.
Memories of our own childhood mixed with that of our children,
trying desperately to hold onto them.
The line that sums it up so beautifully for me is.
“How did it go so fast? We’ll say as we are looking back and
then we’ll understand we held Gold Dust in our hands."
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