New Directions Jenny Meehan Fine Artist

This gallery represents a clarification in my direction. I have noticed a move in my photography towards that which is graphic. The increase of large areas of flat colour which I have always found attractive in the past are more important to me, and with that comes a desire to seperate that which relies heavily on colour ,and that which I see more purely in black and white. I have spent a lot of time pattern making, and also working on more traditional black and white photographic images. I still take photographs of paint, and metal and texture rendered photographically are important to me. However, from 2008, I will be concentrating on the use of paint, and spending less time than previously on photography.

"Notation" Jenny Meehan 2009 (purple version)

You can purchase this through my Photobox Gallery. See Photography main page for more details.

In this version of the image the similarities between the bobbles and the appearance of written music are accentuated. The idea came from a period of contemplation, in the silence. Silence is very important to me, allowing free play of my imagination. As Sara Maitland writes in her book "A Book of Silence", "Musical notation has proven better than spoken language at encoding small silences" observing that a pause and rest are written differently, one which goes on indefinately and one which has a defined period of time. Both the above images have structure and pattern, but also an invitation to go beyond that, on an imaginative journey. See Articulation 2009 still image video for the other photographic images displayed at my first solo exhibition.

"Totem" ©jenny meehan 2008

Presentation: Projection onto a white wall and also as a fabric banner to hang. This work was displayed as part of my exhibition at the Cornerhouse Community Arts Centre in Tolworth in January 2010. See the video on the Solo Exhibitions page.

"Mini Headlight" © Jenny Meehan 2008

"Dust" (also titled "The Wall") © jenny meehan 2007 (self portrait)

Presentation as a light-jet print and as a projection.

"Water Lines" © Jenny Meehan 2008

Shadows, silhouettes and reflections offer new and exciting ways of viewing the world, and in this image the shadows of overhanging branches relate in an interesting way to the reflections made by moving water. It's an image with many voices which work well together. There is also the blur caused by the water's motion, and an additional layer created with computer software. Created to be displayed under glass, or on a smooth surfaced substrate.

The everyday application of paint within my local environment has always been an inspiration to me. This was one of many images taken in Chessington and Hook, Surrey, and part of my "Chessington Painters" series. I have re-worked it to emphasis the surreal and textural aspects of the image. I also find great pleasure in creating alternative visions of the landscape.

Presentation: Light-Jet print

Presentation; Light-Jet print, laminated, mounted on rigid foam board with a narrow black frame surround

A muse on the current financial situation.

I have recently become more interested in the Still Life genre, and the tradition of Vanitas Still Life in particular. How fascinating that in the beginning, (just as was in the case with the first flower still lifes) the skull motif was painted on the reverse of the painting. In the words on a painting by Barthel Bruyn the Elder; "Omnia morte cadunt, mors ultima linia rerum" (Everything decays with death, death is the final boundary of all things". With that, in my mind, comes the need to think not just of the material, but the spiritual dimension of life.

"From Negative, St Alban's Church" The Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington, Middlesex.

This reworking of an old negative, taken by me in my teens of the interior of St Alban's Church, is my most recent image (February 2010) created after a visit to the building which is now The Landmark Arts Centre. Seeing the centre full of artwork as part of the "Landmark Show" was inspiring, and prompted me to take a look back into the past. This representation is based on the original negative which shows the extent of the destruction which took place. It has a new lease of life now. I knew St Albans as a church, as a place of devastation, and now, wonderfully, as a place for the arts and the community.

Contact me if you would like to find out more about purchasing my photographic artwork. See the Photography main page for information on editions and printing.

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