“Clothes on a rail” 2017 painting

Florence Hutchings is a painter who works in an abstractive style that embodies playful shapes and colourful interpretations of everyday life. I was really drawn to her style when researching for this project especially for the drawing aspect, Hutchings also deals with everyday life as we were asked to. I really like her use of colour and pattern while the paintings are flattened and graphic they have a certain depth because of the colour palette like the deep navy background against the bright pink foreground adding more dimension. Hutchings deems colour very important to her practise, exploring the painting fully even if its just black and white there can be just as much story to dive into and create. Hutchings creates large and small scale paintings with elements of collage as well, creating slightly off paintings of the everyday. Similar to this project Hutchings works on many drawings then works from there and develops the painting alone from memory of the drawings so the painting is one in its own but an amalgamation of her ideas and development giving it that dreamlike reality. In my own work I am going to take her lead and use reality as inspiration for drawings rather than trying to be accurate and treating it as its own piece making my own decisions about colour, line and pattern.