Oil on Cradled Aluminium Panel800mm x 450mm x 25mmAvailable
£2,200.00 GBP
Artist Comments
In December 2019, Naughty Sugar was awarded the Attenborough Award during the Leicester Open 30 Exhibition.
Cabaret performer Hannah Matthews was working with a good friend of mine, Sunderland photographer Meg Franklin. Meg was showing me some of the outtakes from a recent shoot and one in particular really, captioned ‘Naughty Sugar’ caught my eye. It showed the fabulously playful nature of the subject and I knew immediately I had to paint her – even Meg’s caption, which referenced Hannah’s stage name, was the perfect, ready-made title for the piece. Meg generously provided additional imagery of hands and fabric for me to incorporate into the painting.
With my career of graphic design and illustration, I am conditioned to log and quantify the hours spent on any project. I’d continued the practice with my paintings as if the amount of time spent could be somehow provide a measure of what the painting ‘owed me’. Naughty Sugar was the last painting where I counted the hours. In reality, I found the only time I would call up the time spent was in conversation – “See those sequins? Fifteen hours spent on those alone. Fifteen! Eighty five on the whole painting!” I don’t think anybody really cares, do they? I mean, what am I doing, looking for sympathy? “Oh, you poor thing, spending all those hours doing something you love. Boo Hoo!”
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In December 2019, Naughty Sugar was awarded the Attenborough Award during the Leicester Open 30 Exhibition.
Cabaret performer Hannah Matthews was working with a good friend of mine, Sunderland photographer Meg Franklin. Meg was showing me some of the outtakes from a recent shoot and one in particular really, captioned ‘Naughty Sugar’ caught my eye. It showed the fabulously playful nature of the subject and I knew immediately I had to paint her – even Meg’s caption, which referenced Hannah’s stage name, was the perfect, ready-made title for the piece. Meg generously provided additional imagery of hands and fabric for me to incorporate into the painting.
With my career of graphic design and illustration, I am conditioned to log and quantify the hours spent on any project. I’d continued the practice with my paintings as if the amount of time spent could be somehow provide a measure of what the painting ‘owed me’.
Naughty Sugar was the last painting where I counted the hours. In reality, I found the only time I would call up the time spent was in conversation – “See those sequins? Fifteen hours spent on those alone. Fifteen! Eighty five on the whole painting!” I don’t think anybody really cares, do they? I mean, what am I doing, looking for sympathy? “Oh, you poor thing, spending all those hours doing something you love. Boo Hoo!”
Free shipping on any UK orders.
Delivery to anywhere else in the world carries a 10% handling and shipping charge.