Fiona Cliffe
When lockdown started, I took a photograph of my almost empty street, which I painted in oil. The street had the impression of Edward Hopper with little activity, so to try and get a darker version of the road in full sunlight I re-painted it using the street light as the focus of light and tone in the painting. This was painted in acrylic.
Moving on from these paintings, I took an abstract approach to the scene, using both charcoal and the oil pastels – but keeping some of the key features: the bridge, the car, the trees. But not the man.
I then looked at Fernand Leger – particularly La femme et l’enfant, and painted two pictures one in watercolour and pencil and a second in acrylic and felt tip. For me these are all a moment in time, as already the road is full of cars (unfortunately) and more people.
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