In Praise of Colour

In Praise of Colour

by | Jul 6, 2015 | art, Environment, Lifestyle

In 2000 I bought my first digital camera, a Sony Mavica. It took images that were 1600 x 1200 pixels and took poor quality video as well as stills. The images were good enough for web publishing in the days when we all had telephone link-ups with their characteristic...
Grid Lock

Grid Lock

by | May 25, 2015 | art, art as language, drawing, Lifestyle, painting, pastels

We use grids daily. Sometimes we don’t recognise them as grids, such as in a carpark. Sometimes we label them with other names such as ‘cells’ when in a spreadsheet for example, or ‘apartments’ in a block of flats. Pixels in digital imagery work as a grid – keep...
A Tea Breeze

A Tea Breeze

by | May 19, 2015 | art, Environment, Lifestyle

The wind came off the sea, fast and hard. Hitting the 300 foot high cliff face it shot upwards joining forces with higher level wind to bend and blast across the path. Birds didn’t take off, they just opened their wings and the wind lifted them into the sky, hurling...
A Waiting Game

A Waiting Game

by | May 11, 2015 | art, art as language, drawing, oil, painting, pastels, Remembrance

The exhibition is over, the work either delivered to patrons or stacked in the garage. In the 12 days it was on 400 people came to see the show, and I sold a dozen pieces, including one of the large drawings. Biggest surprise of all was when my partner demanded that...
Cut and Run

Cut and Run

by | Mar 8, 2015 | art, art as language, drawing, oil, painting, pastels

I’ve been playing with cutting up and collaging imagery. I have been using an Albers-like square to explore colour in plants from the garden. Sometimes I have been mixing the mark with imagery directly, not in the sense of filling colour into the image but treating...