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

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 II; 95cm x 95cm, gesso and mixed media on canvas]… inspiring me 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..

The secret life of Shrede

October 11th, 2007

Shrede, influenced by dockyards, moored ships, the watery trails of encrusted rust on ships at the harbour, a haven for rust in all its fiery glory… i am fascinated by the caustic beauty of corrosion…

.shrede - abstract landscape painting by jazz green

edgescape: shrede, mixed media on panel, 90cm x 90cm unframed.

the textured orange is mostly oil-based inks, gently poured layers created rivulets over the surface, finally burnishing back the surface in places with wax to give a natural glossy lustre to the textures…

textured abstract painting

shrede, detail.

shrede detail- abstract landscape painting - work in progress 1

shrede, detail

shrede was included in the exhibition colour values; i mentioned my paintings in this exhibition here…

shrede is one of a series of paintings on panel; view more textural abstract paintings in the first edgescapes series…

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