“Studio 683” is one in a series of paintings that has as its subject the environment of the artist’s studio space, a subject that has also been of interest to artists such as C. D. Friedrich, Matisse and Hockney. The process of this painting lies in its construction as image. I was more interested in employing a depiction of interior functional space as a way to engage with the formal aspects of painting such as color, light and space, than in the diaristic aspects of personal space (that is, the specificity of a personal narrative). The sort of generic quality of this painting and it’s use of the gradient to simulate light was the foundation for my eventual move into digital processes as a means to create space.
Christian Flynn
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