NP: I reckon standing in front of the canvas, probably a solid week it depends on your subject (pointing at an unfinished work hanging in the studio) a lot of these have your big flat colours in them which are really difficult to paint give me some fiddly stuff, that’s easy.ĭH: Like doing a jigsaw.
NP: (laughing) obviously every brush stroke being torn out of your body.ĭH: That was it for me at uni, I was terrible like that. NP: It’s that cliché thing isn’t it, where it’s four weeks and twenty nine years.ĭH: It’s interesting seeing how people change, from university it used to take me months to produce every painting because I would spend so much time talking to people in between every brush stroke. NP: I wanted to paint quickly so it doesn’t work like that, just speed.ĭH: I know this is a really prying question but how long does it take you to produce a work? (Narbi is currently working on his MA at Newcastle University) What I used to do was acrylic under-painting and then go back in oil.
#E3 i dunno series#
The series of photos we were discussing here were taken at varying stages of completion throughout the creation of a paintingĭH: So what medium are you working in here?ĭH: How long have you been working in acrylics? NP: Yeah, it was more or less just to kind of understand myself a bit, what I was doing as well and it’s good fun to just flick through those photos. NP: So are we going to have a look at some paintings?ĭH: I saw a series of photos of the development of this painting of Bob The Builder I really liked that you did that, allowing people into your space like that. (Cunning and prepared to break down his captor’s defences, Narbi laughed as he poured wine for us all) In those quiet moments of acerbic wit or self deprecation you can catch a glimpse of the character that is omnipresent in Narbi’s paintings the everyman of British comedy whom Narbi references frequently.ĭAMIAN HUNTLEY: Ah God, nothing to apologise for. Narbi Price can come across as being a bit of a closed book mysterious, quiet, reserved, possibly the kind of person you would see played by John Cusack in a film such as High Fidelity (perhaps too obvious an association as Narbi works at Newcastle Art Centre and skirts on the edge of playing the elitist shop clerk).
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