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Another canvas in the ‘ virtual travels in colour’ series…

Roma 2010, mixed media intaglio collagraph on paper and canvas

Another view…

Here is a photograph of a small alley in the Trastevere district of Rome…

A quick perusal of Youtube returned this holiday video; an early morning stroll through Trastevere…

art SOS

May 14th, 2010

SOS is an acronym for Suffolk Open Studios, a collective of some one hundred and fifty artists from across the county, that, as the name suggests, open their artist studios and creative workspaces for a weekend (or two)… this is my first time as an exhibiting artist with SOS (taking a hiatus from the HWAT collective) – below are three small works that I have put into the SOS members’ group exhibition, which opens this weekend at the historic and spendid Blackthorpe Barns


siam, maroc and cretan 2010, mixed media intaglio collagraphs on paper, mounted on canvas, 5″ x 5″ x 1.5″ – part of a new and ongoing series inspired by virtual travels and colour associations…

There are some strange light effects in the barn; tiny holes in the barn’s framework where the sunlight squeezes in, scattering unusually bright ovoid lightspots across the artworks…

here is one of the aforementioned intaglio abstracts on canvas…


siam, 2010, mixed media intaglio collagraph on canvas, 5″ x 5″ x 1.5″


siam, detail

Siam, alluded to in the textured striations and the greeny gold. Siam, now known as Thailand, is a country ravaged by natural disasters, and now in even deeper turmoil with much political and social unrest in its capital, Bangkok… these landscape images seem to make for nicer stories… I try to imagine what it must be like to experience such a deeply sculpted landscape – it is so flat here…


Thailand, rice fields

I have also put in a large blue-green abstract painting to convey a cool, minimalist, all-green ambience to my slimline wall exhibit in Blackthorpe Barns… the SOS art exhibition is open daily 11am-5pm, until 24 May 2010..

I have been continuing with the quick observational studies in my sketchbooks… am wondering if I should pursue my virtual travels through sketchbook studies too?…

another journey into colour

February 8th, 2010

It is very curious where this virtual journey into colour is leading, as every made-up colour combination finds its corresponding place on earth…


Tsavo, mixed media collagraph on paper and canvas


Tsavo East National Park, Kenya  (image courtesy of flickr)

The blue sky and scorched red earth give this vista some aesthetic appeal, but without fauna it looks to be a barren wilderness. I can imagine the occasional roaming herd of elephants emerging from a clearing in the trees, or seeing buffalo drinking at a water hole, but there will also be the parched bones of the less fortunate ones hidden in the scrub, savaged by the lions. This image gives no indication of a highway much travelled by the safari-hungry tourists, although a quick search on youtube returns more than enough shaky videos, with the resident wildlife often appearing less than amused. This is still a hunter’s landscape, of man and beast.


[Tsavo, detail]

I am not sure how long I will pursue this idea, mapping colours to a location, but at the present moment it has its rewards, with the added gratification of getting one’s work out there soon after it is made. These works are very small at 5″ x 5″, and are, in effect little objects (but not objet trouvé), faux tablet mementos to places that I have never visited. The larger canvases (the edgescapes) are distilled vistas of places I have been to, but to me they resonate with more distant and imagined landscapes scarred and ravaged by the elements. The farmscapes have their obvious mechanical geometry, but on some days I question their formality, they seem too detached from their source. Making larger works also takes up all available space, so the work gets restricted by its surroundings and develops much more slowly. I guess that all artists have to deal with those if only moments – of a lack of space and resources. You can adapt your ideas or your work, but there is always a doubt inherent in that decision, in that it is a compromise, not a solution. That perpetual lack of space issue forces the change for now…

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