My portfolio practice is about using reclaimed materials as a canvas. Whether that’s wood, or materials that can be used to make a canvas on a frame.

For these pieces I wanted to use reclaimed wood. I had an idea on the size and one was fairly easy to find as it was an offcut from the piece of work I did last year. Its a piece of mdf board, and already had acricly paint on it so the wood was already primed and the colours mad a great base layer for the image I had planned.

The second piece I wanted it to be as close to 1m x 1m as possible. Luckily there was an old piece of exhibition board that wat able to be repaired well enough to use again. This was also painted with emulsion, I decided to leave the marks and imperfections as they were, in the hope they will add rather than detract from the image.

The third bit of wood was some old wooden flooring. This was cut from our living room floor when we built our extension and had to match the new floor to the existing.