Devolpment: Hidden Stories

What originally appealing to me about Williams work was that most of his work featured water colour. I initially experimented with idea of water colour and then explored textures and textiles with in illustration. Williams work also explored print making and oil based pieces which inspired me to take Silver and gold and create something current and multi media.

Silver and Gold was painted in the 1930's; within the brief as asked i wanted to give it another dimension. Looking at a current approach. Possibly creating a collaboration with a present day influenced. I then discovered the Worldwide TV programmed Downtown Abbey Also set in the 1930's. Situated in a Manor house "A chronicle of the lives of the Crawley family and their servants, beginning in the years leading up to World War I. "(Downton abbey, 2011).   

I believed that the collaboration with Flint's intentions For Silver and Gold; a women enjoying herself in the comfort of the of the golden sheets and the luxury of her bed and colour whilst wearing and stunning gown would fit perfectly with Down town Abbey.  The Crawley Family attending balls and events whilst maintaining there family name and there manor house; This extravagant life style is in the life of a maiden is seen but never lived. The maids are apart of the manor but only as servants never to be.

I wanted to give  Silver and Gold a hidden message "simplicity of the painting, however it  conveys a greater depth within colour and with holds a deeper and darker message throughout the image; The reflection of colour contrast almost  is a physical representation  of a story hidden within. " 
  This deeper depth to the image needed a meaning so I created a story: 

The Perspective of a Maiden. Not only do the servants know everything and the works around a manor house they are intrigued by the deeper secrets of the wealth and the hidden affairs. Crossed paths between a pauper and the rich never to be approved. Love and heartbreak, world wars to making a bed, Although a maid may never have a high financial status she is the information and the knowledge of any manor. The maid is never seen or heard.  Whilst making a bed of her lady she gets lost in a dream and indulgence in the luxurious golden bed linen only wishing for a second how it may feel to be her lady. A moment in time, just to experience what she has seen but never been. A dream which could never be her reality.