I’ve been working on a large canvas of sea shells
This is my palette. I use anything to hand: a piece of old card board, a used envelope, or in this case a pad of lined refill paper. I do have a proper palette but I find it a bit heavy. In this case I used the palette for mixing paint but also to display the shells which I am using as reference.
This is a collection of objects which I have used while painting ‘Low Tide’ and another recent painting, ‘Vortex’, the kind of things you’d find on the tide line, bottles, bit’s of bamboo, a yoghurt pot, a dead fish, seashells, a bit of old newspaper but all tidied, compressed into this rectangle after work. The liquid in the glass is diluted ink.
All photographs © James Forshall
Catherine Forshall 