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| Detail of one of the still unfinished works. |
Ġmiel il-Ħrafa is a collection of paintings inspired and based on Maltese fables and folktales. These are not book illustrations but paintings. I have been working on this project for over a year now. I am basing my work on the vast collection of fables by Manwel Magri, Hrejjef Missirijietna, on work by Trevor Zahra and also on work by Ruben Zahra, especially on his latest collection of Maltese Folktales, co-published between Soundscapes and Merlin Library, titled Ħrejjef Maltin - Maltese Folktales.
Every week from now until the opening date, I will go through the process of some of the paintings, showing sketches, studies and videos of work in progress. I will use this blog as a concise diary of the main issues that I dealt with during the creation of this collection. I will try and go through what lies beneath the creation of a painting.
3 comments:
excellent! the paintings can become excellent projective techniques! interesting..
very interesting concept. are they small or large paintings?
Anonymous, sorry for the late reply, bu the are quite large paintings in fact.
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