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winter solstice

December 21st, 2009

’tis the season… of fog, mist, ice and snow.. a few recent snapshots to acknowledge the winter solstice..

lake misty morning

lake winter morning

snow on hedgerow

winter tree fruit

hawthorn berries winter

winter bush branches

frozen lake and snow

on art fairs, and squares

October 30th, 2009

I found out that one of my small paintings LXV featured on the front page of etsy yesterday… the painting received lots and lots of views and sold within the hour… (which was nice)

Etsy Front Page - 29 October 2009

[etsy front page 29 10 09]

some forthcoming art events that i will be involved in, leading up to christmas…

i’ve sent in my three art postcards to The Royal College of Art’s RCA Secret 09 exhibition… but i can’t show them here as.. shhh, it’s a secret… all the cards are for sale at just £40 and the artist’s identity is only revealed after purchase… sales of the miniature artworks raises money for the RCA’s Fine Art Fund… some famous names announced as contributors to this year’s event include: grayson perry, julian opie, anish kapoor, cornelia parker and gerhard richter…according to an article in the telegraph newspaper, a damien hirst drawing from a previous RCA Secret resold for £15,600 at Sotheby’s, and a Peter Doig postcard artwork fetched £42,000…

the exhibition is open daily from friday 13 november to friday 20 november 2009, and the one-day sale of the postcards is on 21 november 2009… heavy queues are likely, and you also have to register as an art buyer to be in with a chance of bagging a bargain basement modern masterpiece…

i was also contacted by troikaARTS (who i had not heard of before) to contribute to a similar RCA-style postcard Small Art Fair at dragon hall in norwich, 11-13 december 2009, with the mini-artworks for sale at only £11 each…

troika art postcards norwich

next month, i am contributing a couple of paintings (not prints) to the (Norfolk Contemporary Art Society) NCAS Art Auction, scheduled for 27 november.. 50% of proceeds from sales go towards the Sculpture for Norwich project.. more details on the NCA website

targetfollowarts has invited me to participate in their Winter Art Fair at the artfactory studios on 5-6 december 2009… (i exhibited through targetfollowarts at centre point in london last year)..

the mixed show at southwold’s mark elliot showroom has just finished, but we will be back there exhibiting new work in the month of december…

lastly, with some time on my hands, i shot two cartridges of polaroids (original sx-70 film) just to see what happened…the films were three years out of date so some unexpected outcomes were likely…

sx-70 polaroid photographs
[sx-70 polaroids...]

they inspired some thoughts into how i can progress with the air/water ephemerality ideas…

Robert Polidori - After the Flood - photography book
[after the flood - robert polidori...]

i finally succumbed to buying the photographic tome after the flood by robert polidori (having borrowed it from the library)… metaphorical, symbolic, resonant, poignant, haunting, tragic are just a few of the superlatives i could use to describe these after katrina new orleans photographs… but such words would not do them justice right now… i read a few interviews online, polidori talking about his work… much to think about… for another time…

of trees, and water

July 27th, 2009

some new sketchbook drawings… this time in graphite stick… so much quicker to work with.. less refined, but more responsive to the movement (and sounds)… of trees and the nearby water…

sketchbook drawing of ivy roots on tree trunk

ivy growing on a tree trunk

fallen branch of tree

fallen dead branch of a tree (with diagram)

sketchbook - bent willow by riverbank

overhanging bent willow tree at river

drawing - sketch looking up at tree

looking up at a tree

drawing of old dead tree trunk

dead stump of tree

twisted branches of tree

twisted branches of a tree

more branches of trees - a drawing in sketchbook

more tree branches

twisted branch of tree - a sketch

twisted, bent branch of a tree

sketchbook drawing of tree and moss covered bark

moss & lichen-covered, stripped bark

intersecting broken branches of trees

snapped, broken branches of a tree

detail of bark texture - willow tree

the gnarled bark of this old willow reflects the gentle movements of the nearby water…

ripples on surface of lake water

detail of water ripples on the lake…

lake - water ripples

another shot of the same lake… maybe this is a little too reminiscent of vija celmins?… but that’s how it was… just water, at 6.24pm…

i am immersed in structures, patterns, detail, but critical reflection requires some distance, a detachment from objectification… on the cycle ride home i remembered a lecture i went to, taken by the sculptor richard deacon… talking of elements, repetition, rhythm, overlap, edge, pattern, flow, movement, flux, turbulence, the dynamics of change…

leading to the elemental drawings of leonardo da vinci

A deluge c.1517-18, by Leonardo da Vinci [Royal Collection, Windsor Castle]

[to be continued...]

the salthouse 09 art exhibition continues… salthouse 09 : 2 july to 2 august 2009

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