NIKKI FOSTER

Tag: Photography

  • Sitting

    My son finds sitting for me hard  and being in my painting room  frustrating  He says, ‘What is the point of all this?  All these pictures, if they’re just going to sit here?’  I try to reassure him   Its ok, I enjoy it  The point is to try to see better  They might go somewhere  He wants a fiver for sitting for me  For him now   things are…

  • A way in?

    If you choose a group of photographs that have this feeling of ‘punctum’ then I think the only way to prevent the paintings becoming illustrations of the photographs is to remove them from view. Then it becomes almost like a memory game. What forms will remain impressed on your memory and make their way into…

  • Sunday afternoon

    Transcribed from my writing above: Tackled 3 loads of washing, 2 wet, 1 dry, folded and put away, Eden waited by the bed, while I walked from draws to wardrobes, the boys built a fort slide in their bedroom, I cleaned mold off the bathroom tiles, then I jumped with them, on the mess of…