it’s been about twenty five years since i decided i would be an artist… twenty five is a relevant number today (wikipedia helpfully defines it as ‘the natural number following 24 and preceding 26‘)…
in the year 2025 i hope i will still be working as an artist, living in a very big house, making very big work in a very big studio, in the country… but things may work out differently…
Zager & Evans – In the Year 2525
In the year 2525, if man is still alive, if woman can survive, they may find…
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i have been thinking alot about art, money and really making it as an artist this week (future finances and other ideas)… because my current teaching contract ends in a couple of weeks…
however, i will have some new work in two exhibitions for the duration of july – firstly, i have had four small works selected for a curated show, NCA2010 @ The Forum, and then there will be Textures, Traces & Elements (with mixed media artist Hazel Bignell & ceramicist Carol Pask) at the Beyond the Image Gallery – which is in the heart of the historic Thornham Estate (a fantastic setting – lots of trees, nature, walks)… but more on those two events nearer the time… sometimes i fancifully imagine that as i write this that maybe some real people will eventually read it out of interest – apparently my blog spam widget has saved me from over 1000 spam comments since November 2009 (when i switched to wordpress) - but i find just putting up images and text is actually (or will be) quite interesting for myself to read in the future…
in the meantime i’ve decided that i really need to have a bit of a ’studio clearance’ of my recent series of small abstracts on paper, to settle up so to speak… i have to wind down etsy (it is not so good as a selling venue for abstract painters i have decided – well if you are a little British artist on a big American site – having to constantly relist items to get any visibility – the costs really mount up after a while) – and instead focus on doing other things closer to home… but it has been brilliant having some of my small works on paper fly across the little pond…
shown here are twenty of the twenty five abstracts currently for sale, at twenty five (that’s in uk pounds), and are about twenty five in grams (in weight, give or take)… these little paintings work best when seen as part of a series… they still explore my fascination with weathered surfaces (traces of history contained and controlled), but in a more colourful, condensed, ordered and sequential way… please click the thumbnails or scroll down to view more details of these paintings…
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if you cannot see the above grid of thumbnail images (it originates from etsy and it requires ‘flash’ to see them), here are some static images (click to view these paintings larger)…
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random reminiscence: i once took a car for a joyride, a toy pedal car that is, a very smart, bright, shiny red car… i was probably about five or six years old and it was the summer holidays as i recall… the car was just parked up (abandoned at teatime) on a lawn outside a large grey-brick house, shaded by trees… i thought i’d take the little red car for a little spin up and down the pavement for a while (a totally irrational act of thrill-seeking) – i think i may even have driven it home, with an unlikely story about just ‘finding it’… it was a very naughty thing to do but it was the most exhilarating drive for a girl; i never really liked ponies…
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a pony is a small horse (naturally), but it is also slang for £25 and also cockney-rhyming slang for crap…
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