Paint Drop

Written By Alexandra Lunn

So here it is…Paint Drop… 

Over 18 months in the making since my call out on instagram WASTE PAINT WANTED

Needless to say I was inundated with every type of paint, from gloss to vinyls, emulsions to oils.

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

The artwork measures 2.25 meter square - repurposing an old promotional canvas that I had lying around in my studio from a trade show over 5 years ago.

And I gave myself one rule – no brushes!

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It’s been 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 my best 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 I had collected a lot of waste paint from some designer friends of mine, British Colour Standard who had left it in a doorway under the Bargehouse for me to collect over a year and a half ago.

This piece is for sale, and if you would like to view it at my studio, or commission a new piece using an old or new canvas you may have lying around, please get in touch!

Photo by John Grant

Alexandra Lunn

I used to roam around my dad’s wood workshop in West Yorkshire, terrorising his colleagues and making wooden sculptures. I’d accompany him to the demolition sites of the old mills of Manchester and Leeds that were being pulled down; everything within the mills was meant to be burnt, however, he’d salvage wood, bobbins, and cast iron objects and use the materials to make floors and furniture out of the reclaimed timber and other items. The idea that you could make something out of nothing interested me.

I work with developers, designers, and other creatives to create stand-out visual identities, websites, and marketing. 

https://www.alexandralunn.com/
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