Paint Drop, Artwork
Paint Drop, the story behind the Artwork 2020/2021
Over 18 months in the making after Ella’s call to action on Instagram, WASTE PAINT WANTED! She was inundated with every type of paint, from gloss to vinyls, emulsions to oils.
She started during lockdown, with one rule – no brushes!
The artwork measures 2.25 meters square - repurposing an old promotional canvas that she had lying around in her studio from a trade show.
It was showcased at the Bargehouse in London’s Oxo Tower Wharf in September 2022 as part of Material Matters exhibition during the London Design Festival.
She recounts, ‘it was a joyous form of art therapy, a meditation in motion, during these crazy times'… and I have loved the challenge. I have been through love and hate with it, thinking it was finished many times before it finally told me it was!’
The layers and unpredictable cracks are her favourite bits, ‘where gravity and the various paints are left to dry and do their magic…’
The Bargehouse was a perfect setting for its debut. And there was serendipity in the painting being there at the Oxo tower…As Ella had collected a lot of waste paint from some designer friends of hers, British Colour Standard, who had left it in a doorway under the Bargehouse for her to collect over a year and a half beforehand.
At Material Matters Barge House 2022
In the studio…
Paint drop in the making