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Abandoned, Emptiness
Abandoned, Oil on Canvas
Emptiness, Oil on Canvas
At the beginning of the course, I used to painting landscape. Reviewing my early work, I used to paint everything I saw in the landscape, the original reference photo, such as for the forest in the first painting, Abandoned.
To continue the series of taking photos during traveling for inspiration, I went outside London this time. I went to Epping Forest. Trying to investigate about ghost and spooky places, I discovered Epping. This corridor of woodland in Essex has likely been the site of many dodgy and hastily done burials thanks to its size and collection of semi-deserted open spaces.
It was a misty cloudy day during the day I visited Epping forest, it even rained. Wanting to find out more about ghost, I went to Epping. The place is full of graves, from along the road leading at the beginning to deep inside the forest. There were only trees and trees, not a very lifely leafy tree in the forest. There were constructors carrying out deforestation.
Without any animals, the forest is pretty much empty. Thus, to create the painting, instead of drawing all the trees out, drawing all what I actually saw in the scene, I only paint the main few trees at the front and place them in a sort of indoor space to present the emptiness, which is a big change into my painting practice. I also try to avoid using black as inspired after visiting the Monet & Architecture exhibition at the National Gallery.
I took reference from two artists, Elizabeth Magill and Michael Raedecker.