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Josie Goddard

MA Fine Art

Hot Headed, 2021, oil on canvas, 110 x 90 cm

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.

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.

Domestic Debris (detail), 2021

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.

Expression Study I, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm

Expression Study II, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm

Expression Study III, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm

Hot Headed, 2021, oil on canvas, 110 x 90 cm

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.

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.

Domestic Debris (detail), 2021

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.

Expression Study I, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm

Expression Study II, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm

Expression Study III, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm

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