acrylic, oil and metal foil on collaged canvas, 100 x 100 x 3.8 cm
This started with ideas about the piano because I was writing a poem that included the Steinway concert grand I had piano lessons on as a teenager. Then I remembered the very pretty baby grand in an antique shop in Fakenham I used to wish I had room for.
Here is the watercolour I started with in my sketchbook. For reference I was looking at Steinway’s website and it struck me how the new piano strings were a very bright brassy colour, so I used some old metal foil – ie fake gold leaf – which I put on extremely messily. The piano lid makes me think of wings. Either the piano is an avenging angel about to eat me, or it is protecting me, I am not sure which.
