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January 17th, 2013

dear reader, do you remember my experimental travelling abstract iCons series from early 2010 – where will they go, i often do not know

there are currently three of these small canvases on display at the lovely cork brick gallery, all three canvases looking forward to travelling somewhere new. they are: maroc, nepal and tsavo

small abstract painting printmaking stripes on canvas

tsavo, 2010, 13cm x 13cm x 3cm. read more about this small abstract on canvas, tsavo – another journey into colour

maroc, abstract rustic stripes art small canvas

maroc, 2010, 13cm x 13cm x 3cm. photographed in natural daylight on a typically cloudy day in great britain. read more about this small abstract canvas, maroc – around the world in one hundred abstracts

nepal, small abstract rustic stripes textured canvas

nepal 2010, in the artist’s studio, under the spotlight!

nepal - small abstract textured stripes painting on canvas

nepal 2010, seen on a rare outing to the very end of the artist’s garden, where the rust and algae grows – it seems at home here, despite the weather. read more about this small abstract on canvas, nepal – painting by numbers

small abstract stripes paintings

tsavo, pueblo (not in the gallery), and maroc.

there are many more small canvases in the (world travelling) iCons series here (with a simple tour guide explanation), and just over there to the right you will see that there are some more canvases ready to travel light to new places, in the country or the city

why is it always about the art on show in cities, in new york, london, berlin..? oh wait, i forgot, that’s how this small travelling project started – to see the world, taking a virtual holiday, on an internet road trip, a small break from the norm, getting away from it all, on a (not so) grand tour, an escape from the country*

*escape to the country is a BBC daytime TV property series in which prospective house buyers hunt for their perfect home in the countryside… as a large nation of people living on quite a small island, we quite like watching property & travel shows

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going. Paul Theroux (travel writer)

May 3rd, 2012

more exhibition news: i have had two more of my earth/bound series of works selected for a new curated art exhibition, feeling the pressure at Rhyl Arts Centre in Wales.

these are the exhibition invites, which have a curious printed lustre, looking a little like smooth granite or stone & gold on a tombstone. i do not know if this visual aesthetic interpretation was intentional, but it has a slightly apocalyptic tone – and they shimmer and change with the light…

i also had to write about one hundred words about my art in the exhibition. in this regard, i always find myself focusing on the externalised factors (the environment) which influence the making of my art. there are other factors which are more personal to the artist, as if one’s experience and perception of the environment is merely a conduit to exploring feelings about other things… feeling the pressure…

the two artworks i have in this exhibition are earth/bound i and earth/bound vi; these sculptural reliefs are for sale in the exhibition (no pressure). here is a photograph of them, which i took just before i packaged them up and sent them to the gallery at rhyl arts centre.


[earth/bound i & vi, 2011, 30cm x 30cm x 5cm]

earthbound exhibition text

read a little more about the beginnings of the earth/bound series here.

it was earlier in the year when i saw the ‘open call’ for artists to apply for feeling the pressure and i decided to submit an application. i was pleased to have some of my artwork selected for this exhibition as it is a new audience and context for my art.

earlier in the year (or maybe it was last year) i said that i would focus on exhibitions which seemed most appropriate for my art.

the other ‘open’ art exhibition i applied to this year was on the map at hastings museum and i was pleased to have two of my artworks selected for that exhibition too. read more about the on the map art exhibition here.

the art exhibition feeling the pressure runs from 
5 may to 2 June 2012 (more details about the exhibition are below).

UPDATE: there’s a slideshow of some of the works in the exhibition on the BBC news website

Feeling the Pressure

Climate change is the broad subject of this art exhibition, comprising work selected from an open call to artists across the UK. Rising sea levels, drought and over consumption in the world are just a few of the issues that artists have chosen to highlight in Feeling the Pressure, often with a touch of humour!

A prize of £500 is also being awarded, and the exhibition is sponsored by TEGNI and NORTH WALES HYDROPOWER, who are working together to provide sustainable energy for future generations.


feeling the pressure art exhibition poster

[feeling the pressure, exhibition poster]

The artists exhibiting in Feeling the Pressure are:
 Sonja Benskin Mesher, Mary Conway, Sarah Durham, Simon Farid, Helen Snell, Ian Brown, Stuart Carr, Martgaret Tietze, Pat Thornton, Tim Pugh, Emma Louise Preece, Simon Collinge, Mark Sheeky, Jon Kehoe, Jazz Green, Dorothea Reid, Lisa Carter, Tara Dean, David Rasores-Parry, Anne-Mie Melis, John Clarke, Sue Clarke, Lin Cummins, Simon Job, Andy Owen, Harriet Challis–Jones, Jane Glennie, Clarrie Flavell, Jim Taylor, Esther Tew.

Feeling the Pressure
5 May – 2 June 2012
Rhyl Arts Centre
Church Street
Rhyl
WALES
LL18 3AA

Exhibition open: Monday to Friday 10am – 5pm; Saturday 10am – 12.30pm

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April 7th, 2012

i received these photographs of the art exhibition on the map from the exhibition curator at hastings museum in the e-post today…

it looks good; i hope to get to see the exhibition before it closes in june 2012 (and visit the newly opened jerwood gallery, which is also in hastings)…

hastings museum art gallery, on the map art exhibition 2012

Clare Brewster, The little birds, papercuts (left wall); Carl Jaycock, Blue Blood – We all want the world, four digital prints (centre right);

hastings museum gallery, on the map, contemporary art exhibition 2012

hastings museum art gallery, on the map art exhibition 2012

Judith Adler, Floorboard Crossing, digital photographs (left); Sally Underwood, Triptych, knitted textile (centre); Jazz Green, Earthbound II & III, mixed media on panel (right);

hastings museum gallery, map art exhibition 2012

Judith Shaw, Icelandic Journey I & II, paint and photographic image on paper (left);

hastings museum and gallery, on the map contemporary art exhibition 2012

hastings museum and gallery, on the map art exhibition 2012

Jean Davey Winter, Wetlands – Mapping, acrylic on canvas (centre);

hastings museum and gallery, on the map art exhibition 2012

[exhibition photography © 2012 Alexander Brattell]

On the Map features the work of eighteen contemporary artists whose work is variously inspired and informed by maps, cartography and mapping the environment. (I have two works in this exhibition). ‘On the Map’ is at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, curated by Catherine Harvey, exhibitions officer & keeper of world art.

On the Map: Historic Maps & Contemporary Map Art
10 March – 17 June 2012
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
Johns Place, Bohemia Road, Hastings, TN34 1ET

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