Lucy Giles
My process of painting has developed over the last 20 plus years, growing increasingly more abstract. Carrying a sketchbook with me, I always draw and paint on location. Looking for shapes, I make colourful & energetic marks. It’s not always exactly what’s there; I try to build the energy and spontaneity. This I will then take back to the studio. Working on board or canvas I will build a composition into a painting, with a lot of speed and energy and often numerous layers of oil paint. I won’t leave a painting until I know it’s finished. Sometimes re-visiting it over many months or years.
Wind Turbine
2016
Oil on gesso
70 x 40 cm
Big Shadow
2018
Oil on plywood
47 x 47 cm
Stuff in the Desert
2017
Oil on canvas
65 x 40 cm
Surfing and the Moon
2016
Oil on canvas
65 x 126 cm
Black and Blue
2019
Oil and acrylic primer on canvas
90 x 84 cm
Elephants on the Plain
2018
Oil and oil stick on plywood
60 x 60 cm