New Painting: Untitled
Untitled. Mixed media on board (60 x 55cm)
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Untitled. Mixed media on board (60 x 55cm)
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Well that was a hectic few days, but I’m glad to say the Take Four art exhibition is now up and running! It’s in the David Hughes Centre in Beaumaris and is open from 10am to 5pm every day from now until Bank Holiday Monday 30th August. There’s some great work on display by Jenny Armour, Mike Linford and ceramicist Jill Plews. Hope you can make it!
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New tiny paintings, all 15cm x 15cm, flashe vinyl on canvas board, except the last one (20cm x 20cm acrylic on canvas board).
These are my latest paintings, all acrylic on canvas board (30cm x 30cm). I’m working hard trying to get some new pieces together for the Take Four group show in Beaumaris which opens this Saturday 14th August. In these pieces I’m focussing on the human figure as sculpture in order to investigate how we use memory/pattern recognition to interpret what we see. I’m trying to keep in mind Picasso (as always), David Bomberg’s early work, especially The Mud Bath and Vision of Ezekiel, Matisse’s cutouts and Nicolas de Stael’s footballers.
Acrylic on canvas (36″ x 24″)
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New painting: “Self, isolated” (oils and marble dust on wooden panel 61cmx 61cm). Would you believe it’s supposed to be a self portrait? It’s inspired by the Laocoön sculpture and by Picasso’s painting of ‘Woman dressing her hair‘, and is an attempt to sum up the feelings of claustrophobia and depersonalisation brought about by the lockdowns.
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New painting: Isolation, based on a recent (socially distanced) life drawing (Flashe vinyl on canvas (61cm x 61cm)
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This is a new painting based on a 2018 painting titled ‘Seated Nude II’, so thinking of calling it ‘Seated Nude II’ (Redux). Whilst painting it I was thinking of a (Wayne Thiebaud?) quote (heard on the Savvy Painter Podcast?); ‘Shadows aren’t objects, but they are evidence of objects’ (or something to that effect). It strikes me as an apt description of both what we see when we look at a painting, as well as a general description of the act of seeing, so alternative (and rather clunky!) titles for this piece are ‘Evidence of Objects’ and ‘Picking Up Shadows’. Other suggestions gratefully received! (Flashe vinyl on unstretched canvas 36″ x 24″)
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New drawing: Isolation (charcoal on paper 59cm x 59cm), based on a recent life drawing.
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This is a new painting based on a recent sketch ‘The Space Between Us II‘. (Acrylic on canvas 83.5cm x 59cm)
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