I've moved!

I no longer post here. Blogging continues at my new website: www.stephanfullagar.co.uk

See you there!

Lillies

I had an idea of painting a series of large scale paintings with lillies - á la Van Gogh's sunflowers - and stretched a large canvas for the first one. This is just a small study I did first for what I had in mind, but it's unfinished. I'm not sure whether it was the subject, the handling, or the composition, but my inspiration went cold and I got bored. You can't win them all. Doing background research now for our next trip to Chile. Hope to get my mojo back there!

Broken Wasp

I painted a series of three pictures of a dead wasp a few years ago. I decided to go back and have another go, and may again in the future. 

The problem is that, despite gluing the model to a bit of card, they do tend to get dropped and break. I had to abandon one canvas last Christmas, when the wasp I was using got squashed. This was the second attempt, with a another specimen kindly sent by my mother (I don't often get wasps in my London flat). Still dropped it though; you can see a fragment of a broken leg in the bottom right hand corner. 

Asking price (with frame): £225

Santa Maria del Sur Show

I have eight paintings hanging up in Santa Maria del Sur, an Argentinian grill just south of Battersea Park, until the end of June. 

The food, if not the artwork, spectacular.

http://www.santamariadelsur.co.uk/

Maybe next year...

I can now say that I have had paintings in the Royal Academy. Ok, they were on the rejection pile, but they were in the building!

Astrid

This is a portrait of a Venezuelan friend. It's painted in oils on linen canvas, and measures 22" x 22".

Astrid was interviewed by Nico as part of a project we had conceived (which hasn't quite worked out yet - wholly through my failing) whereby Nico would interview Latinos living in the UK, and I would try to capture   something of their character in paint. We envisaged having a show where the paintings and interviews would be presented side by side, the one complementing the other.

Of the three people we met, this is the only one that has made it to a finished painting. I abandoned the first painting after several failed attempts, and the mess I had made of it discouraged me to such an extent that the second never made it beyond the interview stage.

Astrid - as she appeared in the interview and is in reality - is a warm and generous person who refuses to be bound by convention: a person living her life by her own rules and values: a person for whom her nationality is a detail rather than an identity. Calm and confident, spiritual and forward-looking, she is open to opportunity and to new ideas. Hopefully all this comes through in the portrait.

Copy of Goya's, "El Perro" (The Dog)

This is a small copy of one of Goya's Black Paintings, called, 'El Perro'. It's painted in oils on canvas board and measures 14" x 10".

Of all of Goya's work the mysterious paintings Goya made on the walls of his house, the Quinta del Sordo, are my favourites. Seeing them where they now hang in the Prado museum was one of the highlights of last year.

Asking Price: Open to suggestion!

I'm still here!

It has been a long while since I last posted something, but having had to go full-time at work in order to pay the bills has taken its toll on my output. I am still working though, and will have more to post in the not too distant future!

In the meantime, here is a painting I made for my mother's birthday last year, and my new website, which includes my greatest hits.

http://www.wix.com/sfullagar/stephanfullagar

Hasta pronto!

El Enano (The Dwarf) is painted in oils on linen canvas, and measures 24 x 19 inches.

Not for sale