here are three of the farmscapes nearing completion… it’s nearly one year from when the canvases were first stretched…



these four small framed abstracts are currently on show in southwold at the Mark Elliott Showroom, Victoria Street, Southwold, Suffolk, IP18 6JW (click postcode for google map).. it’s in the old adnams brewery shop, behind the famous adnams crown hotel) and is up until the end of january 2010…

click here to see my collage postcards for troika 8..
lastly, some sketchbook randomness from the last few weeks…

[breaking waves at southwold]

[near the hayward...]

[imaginary cell structures... just doodling]
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some snippets of my farmscapes paintings in progress…




[farmscapes, september 2009]
on my way back from visiting a fellow artist today, i stopped briefly to sketch some water…

[study of water, in graphite, about 15 minutes; maybe i should try watercolour...]

[second study - with three ducks, about ten minutes...]

[quick sketch looking through the hedgerow, also about ten munutes...]
i was thinking whilst drawing, of the process of learning to draw, how drawing is essentially translating the sensation of observing into a tangible, physical mark… i sketched quickly, using a near continuous line, using variants of pressure to deliberate and then assert each mark of the graphite… i made decisions but i did not judge the outcome, preferring to allow it to weave together and slowly build up…
the problem people have with drawing is that they judge too soon, making comparisons on a scale of likeness or realism rather than believability… a drawing can be convincing or credible without being realistic… graphite imparts the qualities of graphite… soft, irregular, tonal… a graphite stick may not be the perfect medium to quickly render the glassy reflectiveness and edges of rippling water, but it suits the spontaneous act of drawing, of making marks on a surface, taking a line for a walk or a quick stroll… in the countryside.
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i have completed some more scans of the one hundred abstract paintings… here’s a sneak preview of some more chromatids*..





view more small abstracts on paper…
*chromatids: the two strands into which a chromosome divides during cell division; origin, from the Greek ‘khroma’ meaning colour and id (referring to an abbreviation of identity rather than id, of impulse, the instinctive mind)..
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