Generating works in lockdown has been challenging due to limited space and resources. After week five’s presentation (online) I was inspired to look into other substrates I could paint on in the same way as Liz Maw. I found a collection of Henri Matisse print postcards and decided to incorporate previous works onto the pre-made substrates.
My painting style is very unlike Liz Maw, I prefer to use acrylic and I dislike hyper realism. Instead I’ve chosen to paint in the same colour block style as my previous works. Much like Liz Maw, I’ve rotated some of the works before painting onto them.
The downside of working onto the postcards is having to work in layers as the shiny surface doesn’t hold the paint well.
I found this to be an interesting experiment but I don’t intend to continue working on these postcards in future. I did find it less daunting to work onto a surface with a pattern rather than a blank canvas, so I am excited to try out printing a pattern then painting onto it.