(post updated 23th November 2020)
One day at a time, in my COVID-19 degrees of separation project, I’ve made 250+ iPad paintings in 250+ days (and the project continues!).
I started the project to help me cope with separation, but it’s become way more. Making the art and sharing it is catalysing connection — me with my inner worlds, and, most days, people around the outer world with me. The images are accompanying us through this time of great change. This makes me feel alive.
The project has multiple layers. There is SAL-style honest self-expression around my oh-so-human experience through the C-19 pandemic. There are strong elements of 2020 documentary — as a whole, these paintings and their stories are a record of a period in our collective history. There is SALchemy (the touch of magic I believe in); some of the artworks have special energies and helpful intentions, and prints of 25 of these are now available in the UK, to lift our spirits and brighten our lives:
Visit https://salchemy.uk and see! 💛
Thank you for reading my blog. I will keep a thumbnail record of all the work on this page, in blocks of 16 days. Please come back and check in with my progress.
Days 241 to 252 are above. You can glimpse paintings 1 to 240 below…
Days 225 to 240.
Days 209 to 224.
Days 193 to 208.
Days 177 to 192.
Days 161 to 176:
Days 145 to 160:
Days 129 to 144:
Days 113 to 128:
Days 97 to 112:
Days 81 to 96:
Days 65 to 80:
Days 49 to 64:
Days 33 to 48:
Days 17 to 32:
Days 1 to 16. On day 3 I knew it would be a project and that I would share it.
The project continues. (You can read about how it all started, here.)
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The paintings are made on an Apple iPad Air (3rd generation) with an Apple Pencil (1st generation). I’m using the pro Art Set app.
The project was, in part, inspired by my visit to the London National Portrait Gallery in early March 2020, to see David Hockney: Drawing from Life; I loved his iPad work.
I’ll be super-happy if you share my creations. Please use short quotes from the piece if you like, but always always link back to this page.
For any other use, please ask me first.
See the journey of my paintings and drawings over the years here:
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