Ah, I love this movie. Liv Tyler, Sinéad Cusack, Joseph Fiennes and Jeremy Irons set against a house in Tuscany…gorgeous.
I guess I have a thing for ‘coming of age’ films, girls transitioning into women. It’s such a fascinating social change. Debutantes, Tweeners, Lolitas, they’re all favourite subjects of film-makers and novelists. I guess ‘stealing beauty’ is what they do by capturing these girls at that moment of change and freezing that moment for us to look upon. I feel a bit like I steal beauty when I paint my girls. But none of them really exist the way I’ve created them, so no harm done.
Speaking of films, I recently made a painting and a series of sketchbook drawings for a made-for-TV movie being shot here in town. I can’t divulge the title or post any images of what I made, as the images now belong to the film. This is new for me. How strange to spend hours working on a piece to have it belong wholly to someone else. It’s different when someone buys a painting from me to hang in their home. They don’t own the image, only the painting. It was fun to be part of a medium I love so much. I’m often inspired by images from films, so it felt like full circle to make a painting for a film. I also got to be the ‘hand double’, as in the person actually doing the painting/drawing in the close-up shots. Very nerve-wracking. To do a whole drawing from blank page to completion with a giant camera over my shoulder and 8 pairs of eyes watching me was a new experience. When it gets closer to the air date, I’ll post the title and channel here.
