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delphahudson

Sometimes you have to wait for the mood to change, a new language to be invented before you can speak up
Also @theatreoftheself @smallprometheanacts

‘Where did you fall and what did you find?’ (w

‘Where did you fall and what did you find?’ (watercolour & ink on paper, 42x30cm, 2021).

And the next question is: Do you dream in colour? Painting everyday I often drift off to sleep imagining new colours and patterns. Of course we all dream in colour and about visual images we see everyday.

I haven’t thought about tuning into my dreams for a long time as it feels as if as I get older they are more anxious than the wonderful and empowering flying dreams of yore -but maybe that is indicative of the last year rather than my age.

Thanks to @pollynor on @thegreatwomenartists podcast for reminding me to ‘channel my dreams’ -even if they are dark.

There might be a historical painting reference here to the river Styx. But babies always babies - why am I always dreaming I have to take care of small babies? They aren’t even my own. What does that mean?

#dreampainting #interpretingdreams #anxietypainting #contemporarypainting #watercolour #riverstyx #paintingwomen #studiotoday #symbolism #surreal #delphahudson

Magdalene (Maudlin) Mondays I’m posting historic

Magdalene (Maudlin) Mondays I’m posting historical paintings made about women and lived experience.

There is a fascinating historical relationship between Magdalene & Maudlin. Forget ‘blue Mondays’; think instead of layers of meaning that you can peel away from the relationship between the words Magdalene (the bible character who was often represented as a loose woman) & maudlin (sad or blue) and how they resonate with the way women have represented throughout history.

In these paintings dated from 2010-2014, bitumen and colour layers were used to ‘write the body’ (ecriture feminine) creating corporeal paintings that have references to fragmented classical sculpture forms made by old masters, that you might recognise.

These paintings aim to undo grand narratives, and re-image art history with dark whimsicality. They aim to reground female experience in the hierarchy of painting.

All oil and bitumen on canvas, approx 50x70x4cm:

1. Extase, 2013
2. Girl, Woman, Crone, 2012
3. A partir de ( departing from), 2010
4. I-Matter l, 2014
5. Contes de Soi (stories of self), 2013

#contemporarypainting #corporealpainting #paintingoldmasters #historicalpaintings #maudlinmondays #magdelen #writingthebody #helenecixous #oaintingthebody #palimpsest #atelierstudio

‘I’m using every part of me’ (watercolour &

‘I’m using every part of me’ (watercolour & ink on paper, 42x30cm, 2021)

Paintings are inspired by everyday experience and a sense of the absurd. Domestic interiors are transformed in surreal ways with figures that are often created or abstracted from historical works.

Black ink patterns create textures in a similar way to my usual process of dripping black bitumen paint on canvas - something that I’ve been working with since 2006.

Paintings are spiky and layered-it is darkness that adds depth and unravels meaning. People can take what they want from it.

#contemporarypainting #paintingonpaper #contemporarybritishpainting #contemporaryfigurative #watercolour #darkart #ink #delphahudson #womenartists #domesticdystopias #artoday #narrativepainting #artofselfcare

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