The 1st Year's Crit

Since returning from Heal's store window I have been working on a larger painting (4ft x 4ft) for the first years critique in Slade Research Centre. After a helpful tutorial at the Slade I got back on track with my work and what I'm interested in, and with this larger painting I gave myself the chance to take care in the formal aspects of painting. I bought myself some better quality oils and decided to try out an impasto medium with them, more importantly, I wasn't going to rush through it.

Until now, I haven't had the patience to work on a painting in stages, letting it dry before working on top of it, so it was a challenge for me to both go up in scale and take my time on this canvas. I'm quite pleased with the results, it took me 4 days in total, gradually building it up.


So on Tuesday this week all us little first years had to take our work over to Slade's Research Centre in Woburn Square and curate the rooms to make an exhibition of sorts. It was a great opportunity to get some curating experience and a good chance to see all of our work together (there's only around 40 of us). The crit was all day Wednesday and each person's work was discussed, I was happy to receive a lot of interesting feedback from my paintings, and overall the tutors were impressed with our efforts!


Today wasn't the fun part... Taking the work down and tidying the walls up! But we did receive a documentation workshop, learning how to professionally photograph our work whilst it was in a 'gallery setting'. It will be a valuable skill to have!


So here are some photos of the making of my large painting and my work installed at Woburn...