Whilst still awaiting grades and feed back from my stage 2 assessment and with the continuing lockdown restrictions in place the ability to create art has been a challenge, not least the availability of materials but also the enthusiasm to pursue new things.
I have been reading Painting Beyond Itself: The Medium in the Post Modern Condition by Isabelle Graw, which is excellent so far and I will add a review at some point. I have also been very interested in the late 19th century art movement, Les nabis, with the work of artists such as Edouard Vuillard (1), Paul Ranson (2) and Pierre Bonnard (3) et’al. together with contemporary artists like Frank Bowling (4) and Brice Marden (5). The connection between all these artists is their use of material, form and colour field abstraction, even before the term and been coined. I feel all these new ideas and associations will percolate through and further enhance my practice.
Michael Palmer 