Paintings in Jewellery Boxes
Miniature Paintings in Jewellery Boxes
Paintings - Acrylic on cotton duck
15 small paintings inside 15 Jewellery boxes
1998 exhibition at Manukau School of Visual Arts
When I was a child I cut out images of paintings featured on the walls of homes in my mother's 'home and garden' magazines, and placed them into an old jewellery box (featured in the centre of the wall, which remained closed). This was my own miniature gallery in a way, and my only doorway into the world of art beyond my home, as we never visited art galleries.
I would copy some of these tiny works and make them larger. I produced a particular work, which my mother loved and later framed and placed it on her bedroom wall. (Below. I painted this when I was about 12 years old. Not sure who the original artist was I copied it from but I remember loving the long neck and emotional eyes). I now have this on my own bedroom wall.
In the works above I was interested in scale, painting from the large objects/artworks/drawings I had made or collected or were of interest to me at the time and reproduced them into these miniature paintings. I was also bringing in past childhood events and emotions together with how I was feeling at the time of making.
I'm always fascinated in this pendulum movement over time, of small to large and then returning back to small. Also the movement of many forming into one and then reverting to many again, as the world does on macro and micro levels.The waves of existence.
A layering of public and private issues.
Paintings - Acrylic on cotton duck
15 small paintings inside 15 Jewellery boxes
1998 exhibition at Manukau School of Visual Arts
When I was a child I cut out images of paintings featured on the walls of homes in my mother's 'home and garden' magazines, and placed them into an old jewellery box (featured in the centre of the wall, which remained closed). This was my own miniature gallery in a way, and my only doorway into the world of art beyond my home, as we never visited art galleries.
I would copy some of these tiny works and make them larger. I produced a particular work, which my mother loved and later framed and placed it on her bedroom wall. (Below. I painted this when I was about 12 years old. Not sure who the original artist was I copied it from but I remember loving the long neck and emotional eyes). I now have this on my own bedroom wall.
In the works above I was interested in scale, painting from the large objects/artworks/drawings I had made or collected or were of interest to me at the time and reproduced them into these miniature paintings. I was also bringing in past childhood events and emotions together with how I was feeling at the time of making.
I'm always fascinated in this pendulum movement over time, of small to large and then returning back to small. Also the movement of many forming into one and then reverting to many again, as the world does on macro and micro levels.The waves of existence.
A layering of public and private issues.