This is how it is today
3 panels – triptych 80 x 180cm
Category Archives: cold wax
Landmarks series
I have just finished these 3
On the ‘drying wall’ in my studio
The stark light patches are both disrupting and essential ingredients in my studio life! I have an ambiguous love affair with skylights
Landmark 1 / the path
120 x 80cm
Details from Landmark 1/ the path
Landmark 2 / shadows
60cm sq
Details from Landmark 2/ shadows
Landmark 3 / lightshaft
80cm sq
Details from Landmark 3 / lightshaft
Notes:
1.In November 2014 I visited Ceide Fields – a neolithic site in North Mayo where they have discovered 52 miles of stone boundary walls from a farming settlement over 5000 years old.
2. This year I am lucky enough to be heading to San Francisco and New York to visit some major art galleries exibiting the works of the American Abstract Expressionists and I am particularly looking forward to seeing some of Richard Diebenkorn’s paintings in ‘the flesh’
I have come to realise recently how much it helps me to know something about the history or interests of an artist in order to more fully appreciate their work. That’s not to undermine in any way the importance of the solely visual impact. And I definitely don’t like the verbiage and arts peak that goes into many ‘artists statements’. I’m searching for a middle ground and would welcome comments
thrifty
Some little pinks (and greys)
Each piece 22 x 28cm on board
donegal clouds
Last piece of coarse jute off the roll
120cm x 190cm
May sky
Using a brush to block in the shapes
Maybe done
Footnote: I was given a fabulous book on #RichardDiebenkorn for my 60th birthday. I am enthralled by his famous shifts from abstraction to figuration and back again, and am particularly drawn to his paintings with human and animal forms ambiguously appearing within his landscapes.
The curvaceous shapes in these clouds seemed to appear initially by their own volition, but of course I then exaggerated them. Maybe also with Matisse in mind. And someone said maybe a nod to Magritte too! Haha! Good company 🙂
under the sky
6 pieces on Arches 100% cotton oil paper. Each sheet 76 x 56cm
All under the eaves in my attic studio at Stiwdio Maelor, Corris, North Wales
On paper
Run out of canvases and only a week to go at Stiwdio Maelor – so I’m playing on paper
‘Trajectory’ diptych (2 x Arches paper 76 x 56cm) still taped to the table
Another one still in progress
Series of smaller pieces worked together – 6 bits of sugary sweetness! Largest 2 are half sheets of Arches ie 56 x 38cm
‘All things nice… raspberry ripple?’
2 half sheets Arches – each 56 x 38cm
Ready to go
Hoping to get these 4 framed locally here in Wales. My fingers are firmly crossed that some or all of them will then be sent to Terre Verte gallery in Cornwall for ‘ Into the West’, the summer group show I have been invited to participate in there
‘Musing’ – 80cm sq
‘Spirited’ 100cm x 80cm
Skylight 1 – 50cm sq
Skylight 2 – 50cm sq
journey inward
These are the 4 stages of my most recent largish canvas
It is on coarse unstretched (and creased badly from being in my suitcase) jute canvas about 4′ x 3′
This was actually the second session, I forgot to take a photo of when it was all red and yellow, with a bit of turquoise, stapled to the floor on Saturday morning
Sunday, more sombre with shapes consolidating
Early Monday morning – loads of alizarin crimson overlaid on the lower half and a mess in the middle and a scatty unresolved indecisive upper third
Maybe we’re getting somewhere
2 weeks to go
I will need the whole of the last week for the works to dry, wrap and arrange couriers or post
So starting my last few pieces now. The attic studio is looking very blue!
Filling up!
2 new 50cm panels started with first layers of paint and some contrasting powder pigment
Dawn this morning
Update on jeans on a nail
Skylight and jeans on a nail 100 x 80cm
Another skylight piece still taped to the table
Moon rising with skylight 80cm sq
Risen moon with skylight 80cm sq
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