Spectre II

Description

Spectre ll is the second painting inspired by « Spectre » the 2015 song by Radiohead, a haunting, moody track, with a somber sweeping grandeur which was written for the James Bond film of the same name, but went unused; the film instead featured the song « Writing’s on the Wall » by Sam Smith. The Artist was taken by the story of this beautiful piece of music being rejected for the Bond film, and unable to get it out of her head, painted this work for her series « The intelligence of feeling ». This series, whilst drawing on scape, is primarily defined by emotion and feeling. Parr continues to explore the balance of chance and control during the painting process, whilst remembering and considering absence, time, distance, vulnerability, difficulty, loss and the notion of sometimes feeling lost….. the human condition. She uses pallet knife, brush and sponge building up layers and washing away in a process that becomes as important to remove as to add, a reverberation of relationship with the canvas of addition and subtraction, push and pull. The Artist intends to create something that is ambiguous, moving, chimerical, organic and elemental. Signed and dated on the side of the canvas the painting is ready to hang. The canvas is deep edged 4.4cm which shows small signs of the working process to the canvas side.