Update #4 10 25

PaDA ( Painting as a Democratic Act) 4th update.

PaDA emerged from the need to take away fear of engagement with my art work. …. Large colourful expressions with paint that were shown inside a window in a high street in Sandown that caused a stir.

Visual language and expression is free and for everyone and I decided a powerful way to connect, understand and unite is when we have a shared experience. Doing and experiential activities have a larger impact than reading or being told. I began to invite and include other people’s ideas and mark making.

This evolved into temporary rich textured visual dialogues in the form of paintings that captured moments, the now, the context and concerns of the moments when people paint… in the way that good painting can always capture the unsaid.

Now, today, PaDA is beginning another shapeshift… into examining play, play spaces and creating moments and sequences of moments developed with other people, together and equally, as if the process of making is now a doing of finding out.

Where art itself is a verb, process is redundant and we enter work in the Middle Bit… the space that has no demands except to follow the spontaneous sparks of curiosity that can take us to new areas of learning, growth and connection.