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delphahudson

Productive disorientations of old narratives. Painting as a vehicle for change.
Current projects @synesthesia.project @porthmeorstudios
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‘The family on a tight rope’ watercolour & ink

‘The family on a tight rope’ watercolour & ink, 42x30cm

Don’t be fooled by the linear format and the Glen Baxter simplicity (unintentional as this occurred to me afterwards), this painting is not a myth or even a story yet. But it could be.

I begin most paintings in a visual and entirely non-verbal way. The title might give some clue as to what I think it could be about but paintings are mostly imagined, random, unconscious - making it up as I go along.

Experimenting with inspiration from Marina Warner’s world of myth and ekphrasis, I decided to write a story from the painting afterwards. My ‘mythic versioning’ will be available to read online but in the meantime I’m curious- what if you send me your version? If I like your version the best I’ll send you the painting for free.

If you are intrigued by the cast of characters and possible plots and metaphors, email me your ‘story’ version (300+ words please, mine is 546 words) by July 20th and I’ll post the painting to whoever writes the version I like best.

I’m not really into the Instagram offer thing (though I hear stories if it’s success) I just want to read your imaginative interpretations!💥💥So if I can intrigue you into telling me your reading of the painting that’s massive. If you’re happy for it to be shared on my website - that’s fabulous.

The story is yet to be written.

Email: delphahudson@gmail.com

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If you haven’t yet read @moriahogunbiyi ‘s rev

If you haven’t yet read @moriahogunbiyi ‘s review of my work for @synesthesia.project, it’s now online:

“Like a matryoshka doll, artist Delpha Hudson’s paintings are composed of layers. Hudson rethinks the distant past, creating a new symbolic medievalism that she describes as ‘productive disorientations of old narratives’. Hudson’s historical has shaped her revisionist perspective. When asked what she has learned from studying previous eras, she explains ‘what I have realised is that the past constantly changes-we write and rewrite it from where we are now”

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Dateagle.art/blog_post/reimagining-female-narratives

Images: details from 5 new large paintings & Delpha in the studio by @johnhersey.studio

@dateagleart @plymcreative @cultivatorcornwall

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‘Nepenthe of belief’ watercolour & ink on 300m

‘Nepenthe of belief’ watercolour & ink on 300msg watercolour paper, 30x42cm

Watercolours are reflective visual essays on women’s lives. They are dark, colourful and often riff on idiomatic medievalesque marginalia or drolleries. Surreal landscapes refer to everyday sites and myths; multiple female forms ‘speak’ of everyday lives and existential identity. Figures are often naked. Only recently I read that in most medieval art, bodies were clothed unless the figures were in hell and then they were depicted as naked.

I have regularly asked myself why I use naked female forms in painting when clothing can be used as such a fascinating symbol of historical reference, yet the naked body often seems appropriate as a universal, inclusive of all women throughout history, a symbol for women’s lived experience.

So nakedness and hell, it seems, are appropriate, especially for recent work that draws on myths and imagery featuring hellmouths, devils and women.

Nepenthe refers to a potion used by the ancients to induce forgetfulness, something to bring oblivion of grief and suffering. Perhaps lack of belief is a kind of nepenthe as we no longer believe in religious torment yet residues of the past so often haunt and torment us anyway.

Works on paper are a way of thinking through things & exploring visual material that find their way into larger paintings. Some are for sale via my website (link in bio) - or get in touch for more.

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