Three quick experiments in different ways of creating a moonlit atmosphere. The third one gets some way towards creating a sense of unease and the chair feels more confrontational and present. Iterations to follow.
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Sprint 1: Work in progress
Completed work in this element of the chair series/nocturnes, using a limited colour palette. These images are now framed and will be exhibited at Christmas Krowji Open Studios. I like the sense of a ‘stage’ that emerged from these and the third image’s suggestion that a door is opening off-scene and suggesting space and, importantly,… Continue reading Sprint 1: Work in progress
S2; Troubles with Trajectories
So, the perpetual issue of how to justify one’s art to one’s self. It’s not like I am earning any income from it! I attended a talk at Norwich School of Painting on the topic of painting for a gallery. All good straight-forward stuff about how to de-risk yourself in the eyes of the gallery… Continue reading S2; Troubles with Trajectories
Sprint 1: Aim
Sprint 1 Term 1 01/11/21 (3 weeks) Aim of the sprint is to develop some work on the inside/out/folk horror theme in relation to the nocturne. How does this combination affect atmosphere and forms, and what storytelling affordances does it generate?
S2:The empty chair
Chairs have featured in my work of late. This has grown out of the focus on interiors that merge with the wild or natural world and the recent work have done with a doll’s house around the theme of entropy. The chairs seem to be proliferating! What follows is a reflection on their presence and… Continue reading S2:The empty chair
S2: Triptych – inside-out series
I’ve been working on a triptych designed to be part of the inside-put series. Also serving as preparation for Christmas Krowji Open Studios (scheduled for last weekend in November). The aim was to use a limited palette of three colours (rose quinacridone, payne’s grey and unbleached titanium – providing the boule for each panel) and… Continue reading S2: Triptych – inside-out series
S1: Turner’s Light
Andrew Graham-Dixon’s talk (20/10/21) on Turner pivoted on three ideas: an obsession with light, finding a new visual mode ‘grand narrative’ in painting that differed from Rennaissance mythic depictions, and that his work was instrumental to modern notions of the artist as expressive ‘auteur’. It was his mix of romantic engagement – light, vortex, extreme… Continue reading S1: Turner’s Light
S2: still life landscape
I’ve been playing around with placing domestic chairs in different landscape contexts. I’ve been collecting dolls’ house chairs (junk shop buys etc) and using these as references to insert into paintings of the Cornish landscape. Conceptually, this accords with the recent ‘inside-outside’ theme, dissolving boundaries between inside (home) and outside spaces as part of a… Continue reading S2: still life landscape
S1: In the witch house
In the Witch House representation and material face each other in dramatic stand-off. Material is assaulted by representation’s desire to cancel it out in the silky seamless glamour of illusionism. Material has nonetheless its own defence through its insistent tactile presence. In the Witch House intention is drowned out by the roar of cosmic winds.… Continue reading S1: In the witch house
S2: Perspective
It seemed important to understand perspective in a bit more detail in a 2D context. 3D environment software has perspective support as integral so it’s rather easy to overlook gaining an understanding of Rennaissance models of perspective. I thought had a basic understanding and indeed an intuitive understanding of perspective in 2D contexts (usual stuff… Continue reading S2: Perspective
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