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…

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…

[saltscapes 2009]
mixed media on wood panel; shown here in previous vertical formation…
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[another saltscape... 09 of 25]
15cm x 15cm, gesso and mixed media on wood panel, for the contemporary art exhibition salthouse 09 in salthouse church, north norfolk…

[detail of saltscape IX; showing textures]
and yet another haiku style poem…
abraded, by seawater and salt
coarse skin, furrowed then frowned
at a more polished reflection...
as well as the exhibition salthouse 09, i am also participating in HWAT… there is a taster exhibition (opens on 20 June 2009) to coincide with the Art Trail which runs over three weekends from 27 June to 12 July 2009, … this large fiery red painting rost is in the preview exhibition…

[a small detail of edgescape : rost; mixed media on canvas, 95cm x 95
cm]

a few of the postcard-sized collage works i’ve also made for the HWAT taster exhibition… mixed media collage on paper..
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[another saltscape... #22 of 25]
15cm x 15cm, gesso and mixed media on wood panel, for the exhibition salthouse 09…
using a flash has brought out unexpected textures, ones that i had not noticed before..

[another shot...]

[detail; showing textures]…
and a haiku poem…
stepping on stones, skipping
the sedimental slabs, water blackened
striated, to the shore...
i have been tempted to edit my experimental haikus, change words, but perhaps they should stay as intended… spontaneous responses, of the moment… just words, caught in the net…

and lastly, some small paintings on paper, now box framed, for HWAT…
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