Matisse is ‘a kind of grandfather of my thinking’, Taffina Flood tells Susan Campbell
Visiting Taffina Flood’s studio, instant colour is found in wall-mounted explorations featuring the circles, ellipses and stripes prevalent in her work. Her visual ideas are continuously probed in this way and in the countless notebooks she makes herself; one, with an accordion-fold structure, moves from a busy to uncluttered composition, the artist turning it over to work into the gouache that has bled through. She notes the individuality of each page and its part in the whole. ‘That’s the beauty of the book,’ she enthuses. ‘A page can have its own story in the narrative, but then there’s a continuum in it.’
