This painting has changed name several times, but I finally settled on Bad Neighbour. The street is from a village in the Gers which was in the territories fought over by the English and French. The French named certain villages as bad neighbours, ie English….. These names stayed and `mauvais voisins’ became Mauvezin.
This painting is over three layers of wood and measures width: 550mm x height: 705mm x depth: 20mm
Created over multiple layers of wood this was the most involved of the current collection. Each colour has its own piece of wood, ie every colour is cut from the wood, painted and reconstructed; with some pieces bridging different layers of the painting. It was painstaking to create with multiple aspects, angles and shades of colour.
I was inspired to paint this as the Bauhaus movement is something which has fascinated me for a long time, and this building is representative to me of an institution that inspired and influenced a generation of artists. This freedom and creativity was to be stifled by the Nazis.
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