Marion Wilcocks
artist
Paintings
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Small and Beautiful
I Wonder
Painting still life gives me the
opportunity to explore form, colour and light without the time
pressures of working out of doors or indeed with live subjects!
It also gives a painter the luxury of
controlling objects, arrangement, composition and lighting, and
the time to examine the subject for as long as wished. My still
life paintings are nearly always of ceramics or glass, fruit or
food, or all of these things. Soft, hard, shiny, velvety,
glitter, shadow – I love to examine and paint the way
light falls on familiar objects. Although oil has been my usual
medium here, I have been using watercolour more often recently
in painting these favourite subjects.
Adagio
Drawing and painting from the model is one
of art’s oldest traditions, and it will never go out of
fashion. We are all fascinated by other people, their faces,
their bodies, their clothes. I love to draw and paint
people, not just to use them in other compositions, but as
primary subjects in their own right.
Music can’t be painted. You have to
listen to it. But players, instruments, the orchestra and the
drama of live performance for me are endlessly paintable and
interesting. The string players are my favourites; the
instruments, so beautiful in themselves, and the intent
concentration of the players are what I aim to capture.
Evening in San Trovaso
I like to visit different cities. London is
my home town; I am there regularly, and this year I was lucky
enough to be able to make drawings of the restoration work at
the new
hotel at St Pancras, opening
this year. If only I could see Venice so often! But
visits there have to last me a while. Last year I was in
Singapore for a very brief stay after a long absence –
the heat, the contrasts of old and new and the shimmering
modern skyscrapers have an atmosphere all their own.
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Copyright Marion Wilcocks 2011