Jazz Green : Artist Journal

Posts tagged ‘art trail’

it’s been a heady few days of artists’ exhibitions, previews and soirees.. times to flaunt with the art and flatter the artists, the opportunity to make new connections, and just very occasionally putting one’s foot in it with foolish assumptions and then having to withdraw graciously to the buffet…. places where wine and words flow… talking of nuances of surface, resonance, veils of colour, vibrations, gradations, from visual clarity to the erased and obscured, from outside to inside, of noise and silence, expansiveness and containment… i am all talked out…

open studios - the harleston waveney art trail 2009

along with the recent work i have set up in the barn for the art trail i also put on show my piece for salthouse 09. which i finally assembled in situ, neatly spacing the verticals, then later coming back to where the journey started, to the horizon… a friend said it appeared calmer that way…

salthouse 09 paintings

[saltscapes 2009]

mixed media on wood panel; shown here in previous vertical formation…

painting for Harleston Gallery Waveney Art Trail exhibition in south Norfolk - by fine artist Jazz Green
[edgescape rost...]

newly installed for the taster art exhibition HWAT 09 (opens 20 June 2009) at the Harleston Gallery in Norfolk… fellow artists Jane German and David Page hung the diverse range of work beautifully in the five gallery spaces… here, to the left and right of the fireplace are gesso panels by Dinny Turner, and on the right wall some driftwood sculptures and paintings by HWAT guest artist Derek Nice… and a nice leather sofa too (no relation)…

paintings - harleston art trail - artist open studios suffolk norfolk

[edgescape : rost; 95cm x 95cm including frame, gesso and mixed media on canvas]…

i was inspired to take another mission to mars (courtesy of NASA)…

a robotic lander, The Phoenix [as part of the current exploratory Mars Phoenix Mission], has been looking for more evidence of life on mars in the planet’s mineral-rich but arid soils… evidence of salt deposits suggests that there was once water and thus life on mars… i have been enjoying viewing the nasa images of this martian, desert-like environment, composed of expansive volcanic craters, craggy rocks, dry valleys and delta basins… it’s a bit frosty there too, not at all warm as one might assume.. the relative redness is attributed to the red iron oxides present in the soil, and many images of the surface of mars are digitally enhanced with false-color… the potential origins of life are there to see on nasa
so, why on earth do some people twitter on about eating cake (as nice as the cake may be) or whether or not to mow the lawn…?

nasa inspired me to do a miniature surveillance of the surface of my painting edgescape: rost

red abstract textured painting by Jazz Green - rost
[detail 1 of edgescape : rost]

harleston art trail - artists open studios
[detail 2 of edgescape : rost]

painting - part of exhibition for the harleston suffolk norfolk artist open studios art trail 2009
[detail 3 of edgescape : rost]

textured painting by contemporary artist Jazz Green
[detail 4 of edgescape : rost]

rost meaning a strong current or tide, the Germanic origin of rust, meaning red, rost is also a small crater on the surface of the Moon… Mars, known as the red planet, is not truly red… mars red, the whole of life painted in red… fire and fury, power, glory, blood and guts, of war and peace… the blush of ripening fruit, the rush of life, energy, passion, belief, resoluteness, and enlightenment…

edgecape: rost ii is on exhibition at the HWAT taster exhibition (opens this weekend)… and there’s a second taster to follow at the cork brick gallery (small-scale artworks)…

view my other paintings in the edgescapes series..

answers, on a postcard

June 17th, 2009

painting for salthouse 09 exhibition in Norfolk  - by fine artist Jazz Green
[another saltscape... 09 of 25]

15cm x 15cm, gesso and mixed media on wood panel, for the contemporary art exhibition salthouse 09 in salthouse church, north norfolk…

painting and haiku poem
[detail of saltscape IX; showing textures]

and yet another haiku style poem…

abraded, by seawater and salt
coarse skin, furrowed then frowned
at a more polished reflection...

as well as the exhibition salthouse 09, i am also participating in HWAT… there is a taster exhibition (opens on 20 June 2009) to coincide with the Art Trail which runs over three weekends from 27 June to 12 July 2009, … this large fiery red painting rost is in the preview exhibition…

red abstract textured painting by Jazz Green - rost
[a small detail of edgescape : rost; mixed media on canvas, 95cm x 95
cm]

small collages

a few of the postcard-sized collage works i’ve also made for the HWAT taster exhibition… mixed media collage on paper..