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Hot Headed, 2021, oil on canvas, 110 x 90 cm
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Hot Headed (detail), 2021
I am a painter working between London and Florence. I received my formal training in portraiture at Charles H. Cecil Studios and am currently finishing my Masters degree at City & Guilds of London Art School.
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Domestic Debris, 2021, oil on canvas, 110 x 60 cm
I work solely from life, bringing my friends and family into the studio and surrounding myself with strange objects that I find in junk shops or in the landscape. These objects become symbols like in Religious or allegorical paintings, where objects are used as indicators into a story or character. My paintings are located in the domestic space amongst loved ones when we are at our most candid. A fleeting encounter with a butterfly, a suspended bird skull or a fragment of a veiny wrist clutching flowers, my paintings are at once intimate and strange but always rooted in nature.
![](https://shows.cityandguildsartschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/JosieGoddard_DomesticDebrisDetail.jpg)
Domestic Debris (detail), 2021
![](https://shows.cityandguildsartschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/JosieGoddard_DomesticDebrisDetail2.jpg)
Domestic Debris (detail), 2021
Borrowing directly from the old masters, I hope to create a language that is both timeless yet personal. The elastic nature of oil paint creates a dichotomy between image and abstraction. In work by Velázquez or Hals for example, a hand or fabric can suddenly blink out of recognition and returns to textural paint. Through my background in my classical training, I aim to test this boundary, delighting in paint’s capability to emulate nature, losing and finding form in the liquid colour.
![](https://shows.cityandguildsartschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/JosieGoddard_ExpressionStudyI.jpg)
Expression Study I, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm
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Expression Study II, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm
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Expression Study III, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm
![](https://shows.cityandguildsartschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/JosieGoddard_HotHeaded.jpg)
Hot Headed, 2021, oil on canvas, 110 x 90 cm
![](https://shows.cityandguildsartschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/JosieGoddard_HotHeadedDetail.jpg)
Hot Headed (detail), 2021
I am a painter working between London and Florence. I received my formal training in portraiture at Charles H. Cecil Studios and am currently finishing my Masters degree at City & Guilds of London Art School.
![](https://shows.cityandguildsartschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/JosieGoddard_DomesticDebris.jpg)
Domestic Debris, 2021, oil on canvas, 110 x 60 cm
I work solely from life, bringing my friends and family into the studio and surrounding myself with strange objects that I find in junk shops or in the landscape. These objects become symbols like in Religious or allegorical paintings, where objects are used as indicators into a story or character. My paintings are located in the domestic space amongst loved ones when we are at our most candid. A fleeting encounter with a butterfly, a suspended bird skull or a fragment of a veiny wrist clutching flowers, my paintings are at once intimate and strange but always rooted in nature.
![](https://shows.cityandguildsartschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/JosieGoddard_DomesticDebrisDetail.jpg)
Domestic Debris (detail), 2021
![](https://shows.cityandguildsartschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/JosieGoddard_DomesticDebrisDetail2.jpg)
Domestic Debris (detail), 2021
Borrowing directly from the old masters, I hope to create a language that is both timeless yet personal. The elastic nature of oil paint creates a dichotomy between image and abstraction. In work by Velázquez or Hals for example, a hand or fabric can suddenly blink out of recognition and returns to textural paint. Through my background in my classical training, I aim to test this boundary, delighting in paint’s capability to emulate nature, losing and finding form in the liquid colour.
![](https://shows.cityandguildsartschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/JosieGoddard_ExpressionStudyI.jpg)
Expression Study I, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm
![](https://shows.cityandguildsartschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/JosieGoddard_ExpressionStudyII.jpg)
Expression Study II, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm
![](https://shows.cityandguildsartschool.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/JosieGoddard_ExpressionStudyIII.jpg)
Expression Study III, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm