Jazz Green : Artist Journal

Posts tagged ‘open studios’

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..

poetry [e-motion]

June 10th, 2009

bruised rouge, to grey
clodded clay,
clawed deep, the way…

small saltscape textured painting for salthouse exhibition 2009  - by artist Jazz Green

[another saltscape] 15cm x 15cm, one of 25 works in progress on for the salthouse contemporary art exhibition 2009

i am not a poet but i quite like poetry… i won a poetry prize at school but the careers officer said if i really wanted to be a writer i had to study journalism… i once signed up to a creative writing workshop, but came away disillusioned after a day’s workshop on plot development and characterisation… the more said with less appeals… an economy with language, painting the scene with single words, not gilding with ornate prose… perhaps there is something good to come out of the texting phenomenon; in time we will all become poets, communication condensed, a poetry in nano…

i have debated whether or not these panels should be hung together to look as a series of landscapes… implied historical narratives seem to be a big part of the exhibition… but i have a reasoning behind a current preference for stripes, horizontal or vertical… i am reminded of barcode images, maps, of extracted dna, information refined for analysis, visually coded, simplified data… i realised that the stripes were in some way linked to a need to condense, compartmentalise, tidy up collected and stored visual information, putting things in order, creating an essense out of the apparent mess of things…

p.s. a gentle plug for the HWAT website which i have been working on…. my involvement in a local art trail [artists' open studios]… these artworks [saltscapes i-xxv] will not be on show as by then they will be installed at salthouse church…