Toothbrush

I have been helping with a really exciting project this month. 

I am providing a group at the Northern Film School with paintings for a film they are working on called Toothbrush. 

It's a short film about a man with cerebral palsy who paints with his mouth, his carer then steals his work and sells it as her own. 

It's been a really great process to paint to someone's requirements and deal with a completely new set of challenges through working with film and a specific plot. 

I might even get to be a extra! 

Thats the evolution of the preliminary drawings for you. I'll post the final pieces next week! 

Some drawings from a figurative project of 2011.

I wanted to blur the boundaries between figurative and abstract.

I 'zoomed in' on areas of the body not normally focused on or, in some cases, painted from a 

unexpected view point. 

xxx

Study Tour

I know I sounds strange but I love a bit of mess on my table when I'm working! I like to see everything so I can grab whatever comes to mind - I work with mixed media and it helps to inspire me! 

I also like to have a good clear up when I'm stuck and it clears my head! It's a bit of a paradox - but it works! 

Welcome to the Lifton studio!
I thought I would show you where I spend my days.
I am currently working on a figurative project that explores my relationship with my own body. I want to subvert the classical poses we are so used to seeing and often take for granted.
I had to deal with quite a long illness over the last couple of year and I have been eager to use this experience in my work. My project has been very therapeutic and I am pleased that I have been able to use a hard place in my life to create art.
I was really inspired by a module I completed a couple of weeks ago called Old Mistresses.
It focused on female artists throughout art history and because of this I feel I have widened my theoretical in a way that is incredibly useful to my practical work.

Power and the Body 2011/2012

These are some larger drawings or paintings 

( doesn't matter which) 

That explore the same themes as my drawing book work.

I am trying a work anger into my drawings. 

The use of writing is far too obvious. 

I am struggling with over sexualizing my figures.

I am trying to protest against just this but showing it in my work...

I have tried to enhance this in my work, tried to remove

 the power of the women. 

But am I getting the point across that this is bad or am

 I just conforming to something I disagree with?