Fleur Macdonald

Primarily a figurative painter working in Gouache which is applied to wooden surfaces, not square as I need a variety of shapes for my images to work. Small still lifes of objects that represent as aspect from one’s life, ie a Gun from WW1 which relates to a past relative or the realization that weapons in modern day civilisation should not exist. The red enamel tea pot from a childhood memory and all things that are shiny and pretty. Heavy on the detail, using tiny brushes that push myself to achieve that perfect image, but close to photo realism. These works are small although the gun was added to a much larger work later on. It’s all about the intimacy of smaller works that I am much more comfortable with.