"Evolutio"520x620mm. |
"Titivating" Giclee prints A2 size £40 framed £20 unframed twig and ink |
"Twisting pierrot" 505mmx610mm. | Both coloured pictures oil and watercolour Price £300 framed Original. Prints sizes various £18 A2 |
For me retirement provided the
perfect opportunity to explore my lifetime interest in painting and drawing. I
decided that when I retired I was going to paint so I enrolled in life drawing
classes several years beforehand and completed a Foundation Art Course at
Queens Road Bristol after I retired. I found studio space in my second year at
the Bristol Diving School and when that was sold I moved to Hamilton House in
Stokes Croft.
Early in 2014 I became inspired by
the Paul Klee Exhibition at Tate Modern and this saw my painting change direction. I've always been experimental and
this year I've found myself particularly interested by the oil transfer
techniques and exploring them as well as cubist and colour techniques that Paul
Klee used, in my drawing and paintings.
I practised
using cubes and produced some from red to green paintings. I used different
transfer ways using a variety of sketches. Klee's transfer was a type of
monoprint using black oil paint. Last year I started my journey and there were
a number of changes from using one transfer in oil experimenting with
backgrounds, through to animal sketches, printing sketches, to the most recent
paintings where I am using sketch
transfers on top of each other and painting shapes in colours from red to
green. This year the techniques have developed and I have 8 new works:-
"The gods within me", "Twisting Pierrot", 2 in One
reclining", "Flying","3in One", "Arising
Up"," Evolution" and "Tumbling around". I have also
done 4 quirky pets
"Cat","Dog1","Doodle","Dog2".All semi
abstract.
About 20 years ago I was introduced
to the technique of using twig ink and wash in the life drawing setting. Using
a twig seemed to free my work as the
line can be thick or thin at random. I have also been searching along the lines
less is more and the simple quick sketches, "Stretching" and
"Titillating" are in twig and ink giving them an emotional and moving
quality. The third is an ink only sketch "Stretching". I started
using grey scale painting at College and I wanted to explore painting portraits
and this led to the 2 paint sketches "Black on White" and "White
on Black". All the pictures are on
sale as limited giclee prints. June Hoy September 2015
contact details:j.hoy@blueyonder.co.uk.Facebook June Hoy.01179232702.
contact details:j.hoy@blueyonder.co.uk.Facebook June Hoy.01179232702.