This series has been ongoing since late 2020. It began with a series of polaroids taken during a 17 day quarantine with my son Jules in Stirling, Scotland as he prepared to start his BA at the University there. Cooped up and looking for some stimulation and routine things to do, we decided to take alternately a polaroid a day. I’ve held onto these polaroids and have been looking at ways to produce some work about or from them. These large scale panels are the latest approach, using porcelain slip on plywood panels. At the moment I see them like growing organic plants or possibly dying corals that hint at the original cluster of 17 polaroids. Still got some way to go…

Images:
01 – Q Polaroïds Slip 01’ WIP 153cm x 153cm porcelain slip on plywood panel
02 – Q Polaroïds Slip 02’ WIP 153cm x 153cm porcelain slip on plywood panel
03 – Q Polaroïds Slip paintings in studio in Montpellier, France
04 – Beginnings of Q Polaroïds Slip 01’ WIP 153cm x 153cm porcelain slip on plywood panel
05 – ‘Q Polaroïds 11:15pm 29/03/23′ 30cm x 30cm -oils, inks, & crayon on cotton paper 300g/m2
06 – ‘Q Polaroïds 11:43pm 23/03/23′ 30cm x 30cm -oils, inks, & crayon on cotton paper 300g/m2
07 – Q Polaroïds (14 polaroids alternately taken by my son, Jules and I, during our 14 day Covid quarantine in a flat in Stirling, Scotland, 27/08/20 – 09/09/20) still life in studio