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JEMIMA COULTER FOUR PAINTINGS
My name's Jemima Coulter, I’m a songwriter, producer and sometimes carpenter. Growing up, creating music came second to making things out of wood and drawing, for me, these things feel like the most immediate and dangerous forms of ideas, they are a lot more tangible than music which can feel daunting. With physical objects, the product of your imagination is very much in front of you and immovable, even rubbing out a line isn’t quite as finite as deleting a part on a track. Making things outside of music centres me in my intuition, for example, painting is very low pressure, it allows a space where I can express in limited dimensions
with a limited palette. For me, it feels analogous to producing a song. Working with colour and arrangement is like working with time,
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space, timbre and pitch but with less to worry about. Designing and making things feels like a totally separate skill-set in lots of ways, it requires more structure, planning and accuracy in a way that doesn’t really occur in anything else that I do. But I think pickiness/ precision is still relevant in music making - the brain that trains in on a hit that’s slightly too late is the same one that makes sure my fingers don’t get chopped off. The interesting thing about carpentry is that foresight is incredibly important, problems are always going to occur, but building escape routes into the process can allow for you to easily amend anything you’ve fucked up without it
