Month: February 2016

Groundhog day!

I regard my works as landscape, I think of my work as conceptual, contemporary, abstracted, post modern,………

I could go on and on and on…….  So how do you choose your box?, or do you just order a job lot from the wholesalers and do them all? I have a problem with that though , as there are not enough days, weeks, months, years! I look at an Earthscape, which is what I called them in one exhibition, but I also think they are equally metaphors for emotions as well, so am I saying that these images are open to interpretation? of course! Of course they are, so back to my dilemma, are they landscapes? conceptual…………oh  oh, groundhog day!

Hope or Despair
Hope or Despair

This is a drawing of sunlight pouring through a chasm, but is it hope? or despair, is your glass half full or half empty?

New Work New Work

I’m back working on new work, back in the shed and loving being there! I am in the zone, and everywhere there is chaos, noise, and mess. I’ve mixed up my gesso, and panel primed and good to go. I have just re-worked a panel and will put up an image. I usually work on several panels at the same time, as their is a lot of drying and process time to factor in, so I can be finishing off one panel, be in the middle of another, and just drawing out another. The good point of working like this is that it gives your eyes a rest from constantly looking at one thing, and refreshes them.

Panel, reworked.
Panel, reworked.

 

Freezing workshop

water land waveform
water land waveform

Sketch for new panel, inspired by wave patterns and formations both on land and in the sea. So much of my work encompasses change from one, to another, from light to dark, and because of my technique using relief, gilding and distressing, the work incorporates a changing light and so a time change dimension. I hope to shortly put on website a time lapse video to show exactly this. I have resorted to prep work that can be done in the warmth of the house till I can heat up my studio/shed.