You all know me mainly by my needlework. I embroider, quilt and sale embroidery patterns. But, in the deepest part of my soul I am a painter. I believe that oil paints have their own life. I feel privileged to have the ability to use the life in oil paints to communicate.
I do get lost though. The images in my head become distant. The flash of pictures in my mind tumble out before they can reach my hand, paint brush and canvas. My ideas vanish leaving only a crude idea of what I was thinking.
That is when I open my book of work by Lucian Freud. His images stop the leakage of my ideas. The simple concept returns. I stop the overthinking and analyzing. Because what I really do in my art is paint people. I may put them in headdresses or costumes, but what interests me is that they are just people.
Mr Freud’s paintings are just people. But these people are extremely alive. I never look for the symbolism or possible hidden messages in these paintings. What excites me about Freud’s work is how human and alive he paints his subjects.
The painting of Queen Elizabeth is a good example of what I like about Freud’s work. It’s a very simple composition. You can see the crown, the done up hair, but he has made this queen human.
I know my work doesn’t compare to Freud’s, but if I can get just a touch of humanity in my work, like he does, I would say that I had a good day painting.
I am a painter, also. I really feel that I have turned embroidery into painting, though. If I had to wait for a stretch of time to paint, I’d never get anything done, but I am able to create what I would have with floss.
I get what you mean about Lucien Freud.
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wow. Thanks so much for posting this and introducing me to an amazing artist. I am a printmaker and needleworker (and sometimes the two end up quite tangled). I am not a painter and I so admired people who are.
Impressive report,Maybe I might sign up to your rss.
That was a fantastic blog post,I just subscribed to your rss.
Love your blog, art and Lucian Freud too. What do you think of Jenny Saville?
the paintings at time are grotesque yet they are very good at time.
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Seriously. His work is amazing. He looks at someone and really sees who they are.
He was a deep genius and will be missed.
Lucian Freud passed July 20, 2011. He was the grandson of the Viennese psychiatrist, Sigmund Freud and son of an architect. The entire family escaped the Nazis to London in 1933, where Lucian studied art.
He is reported to have had many, many children and affairs, married twice. His paintings have sold in the multi-million dollar range. Rest in peace, great artist and seer of the human form.
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I can say that your loving what your doing which is into painting. I am a bit envious about your talent because I can’t make paint as good as you instead I take refuge on photography on showing what I feel through images.
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