Artquest Painting Salon 3
6.30 – 9.30pm on Zoom

Artquest Salon combines ongoing peer-to-peer feedback on artists' work and presentations by art world professionals. The Painting Salon is for artists working with painting, either in a traditional sense or those considering the boundaries of the medium in today’s context.

The painting salon included a presentation from Peer Sessions (Kate Pickering and Charlotte Warne Thomas) about their unique crit methods. Peer Sessions then facilitated two feedback discussions.

Two artists presented work for feedback:

Oliver Palmer showed two paintings, Bloomsday XIII and Stalactite Disaster I. The discussion of Bloomsday XIII began with a general agreement that the painting was joyful and exuberant, expressing something dynamic and energetic. Some participants felt the work was created digitally, while others felt it was some kind of expression of the artist’s inner world. Ideas of the divided pictural plane were raised in relation to the second painting, Stalactite Disaster I.

Hava Stone presented two recent resin panel paintings, Feminine Burst, and Emerging. Initially the conversation revolved around the red circular panel and how it looked like lava, or a planet, how the resin recreated geological forms. Others felt the title Feminine Burst led to an interpretation of it being more bodily or visceral, possibly a view down a microscope of blood and sinews. In contrast, the conversation about Emerging was more focussed on how it replicated natural forms like landscapes, moss, moulds or slimes.