NIKKI FOSTER

Tag: painter

  • To Be Let In

    Yesterday morning I booked a seat for a talk by Hettie Judah at Rua Red in Tallaght, Dublin: How to Enter the Art World After…  Around the same time, I read this line by writer Sara Baume in an article written for Ocula magazine: ‘I am a solitary person, generally disinclined, at this stage in my life, to…

  • Just One More Push

    This morning, I woke up groggy after double-dosing on the valerian tablets I take to help me sleep. I think it’s okay to double dose because they’re herbal, but it takes an hour or so in the morning to shake off the daze. My six-year-old son came running into the kitchen. “Mummy, Mummy, look!” He…

  • Deconstructing, Reconstructing

    Can we play a game? My son asks as he takes a sip from a bottle of water. I pause to take a photograph, framing him from low down to catch the rim of light on his hands and face. When you take a photograph, you step outside of the moment. Out of time, the…

  • Remote Response

    It is, for me, always strange and exciting to see my paintings hung in a gallery space through a digital image, knowing I will not be present in person to see the work itself. You imagine yourself standing there, looking at your work, looking at the other works around it. Maybe you even get a…

  • Let’s Bring This Outside

    ‘I don’t go to therapy, I Golf’ Troy in Beef, Season 2 Recently, at a party, I was sat with two women, one a close friend, one a friend of my close friend. My friend was talking about her experience visiting a Lacanian psychotherapist. ‘Oh, I don’t think he got a good read on you…

  • Making Chaos Between Forms

    The line marking lucidity from darkness is yet to be marked out. Adrienne Rich, From an Old House in America (1974) I propose to make a body of work in the form of a series of zines that explore unstable oppositions through a convergence of imagery and text. These include, among others, the familiar and…

  • Everything will come up to meet you

    What is your unit of painting? Sillman Guston, Munch Tuymans, Rego, Auerbach, Lowry Soutine Davis, Doig And Cecily Brown Material conditions and parameters (of leaving?) Large flat brushes Water, time Everything will come up to meet you Clearing, oil and acrylic on canvas (70 x 50 cm)

  • Bold

    This afternoon I felt the first warm sun of spring on my face. When I closed my eyes the glow was coral red. Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning. Favourite lipsticks: orange red for day, berry red for night. Indian red is on my palette because it’s awkward and dirty and seems to resist…

  • Blue Slippy

    I started this painting on an A1 piece of paper, working in washes from a photograph. I wanted more weight from it, in paint, and more distance from the photo. So I cut it up and mounted it on three small canvases, 30 x 40 cm. I have discovered this glue which dries completely clear…

  • In Conversation

    I have become very focused on painting from photographs. Photographs I have taken, which is a change because up until last year it was predominantly from my mother’s collection of photographs, taken from a large plastic bag which she had planned to throw away. I don’t know why she wanted to throw them away. I…