After my initial mark making I decided that this piece suggested an urban scene, mainly because of the blocky marks I had made. I couldn’t get the image of the painting by Bruegel of the Tower of Babel out of my mind and throughout the whole process that’s what kept returning to me. My painting however was based on Edinburgh, with Arthur’s Seat and the hills in the background, the iconic seating platform surrounding the castle for the tattoo, stairways and archways, which are so prevalent in the old town. As time went on, I didn’t feel the need to remain with Bruegel’s composition and I introduced elements that are significant to Edinburgh‘s landscape…. the iconic bridges down in the bottom foreground of the painting, the Christmas Ferris wheel in Princes Street Gardens and just mere suggestions of historic buildings. And all the while fracturing the images, disrupting the idea of a single narrative or story of Edinburgh.
Auld Reekie and The Tower of Babel Oil on Panel, Framed Size 175 x 132 cm, £11000
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