What's On The Easel? Ivy's Poison
- Jane E Porter
- Nov 15
- 1 min read
Secrets, Lies and Liberation
At the moment, my studio is the dining room table — a petite island of brushes, glue and half-baked studies. I’m still working in mixed media, using textures that make a piece feel lived-in before it arrives, but on a smaller scale. The images below were created with collage, gouache, coloured pencils and digital painting.
Image: Ivy's Poison
Ivy asked to be animated. She was craving movement, a shift in mood, and a moment of what-s-on-the-easel-the-fiction-of-realitybreath.
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The piece below is called The Fiction of Reality, a title you may recognise from my last post.
Working small has a kind of freedom — less time, lower stakes, more room to wander. No large canvases or sprawling mess, just detailed work built in small, deliberate layers.
I played with different backgrounds and clothing. The close-up shows the collage tucked beneath her skirt — tiny scraps that hold the story and mood together. Maybe it’s the limitations, or just the season I’m in, but these pieces feel more distilled, as if the constraints are shaping them in ways I didn’t expect.
It’s a strange time of making art: no real studio, everything portable, everything temporary. But somehow the work is still finding its way through my hands.
As always, thanks for dropping by and following my progress.
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