“Moonrise”
Water soluble oils on 40x30cm canvas. This started life as a relatively tame field scene; then along came the sky, the sea, and the large object in the sky. The camera picks it out, the eye doesn’t – not at … Continue reading “Moonrise”
Punk Fall
While the actual book, Frog Fall, makes its way through the publication system, here’s Punk Fall featuring a drenched version of the original. Materials? One proof copy, a bucket of water, and a raid on PowerDirector’s effects cupboard. Audio is … Continue reading Punk Fall
The bird poop picture
The blue winter light is affecting the photo, although, that said, it is meant to be a view from the seabed. Birds are essential to our survival. This is what they do for us: Handmade bird silhouette from an earlier … Continue reading The bird poop picture
Drone
This began life as a painting of a doll dressed in some sort of national costume. It was a useful bit of practice at faces and detail but not a keeper. This is the start of the eradication process and shows the elements of a big sky and some landscape detail in the bottom third. I worked on it intermittently while making the painting of the yellow crane and forgot to take photos. There was nothing particularly edifying, luckily, although I do like to document process, especially when a transformation happens without warning. In this case, having messed about with … Continue reading Drone
Singer of Worlds
Began as a rejected canvas and found new life as another alternative creation myth! The painting is here and this is the story: When the universe made the first world, she was not pleased with its attitude so she destroyed … Continue reading Singer of Worlds
Frog Fall video layers
Below are the videos associated with the images in the book; in order, front to back, just in case the AR (augmented reality) doesn’t work for you. Expect audio! Below are the B FROG FALL – FRONT COVER ADUR RIVER … Continue reading Frog Fall video layers
Films and animations of paintings
This is an initial exploration of merging static images with moving ones, along with a prose* poetry audio track. These are old paintings, but they’ve given me some ideas. All of the elements are my own. *Every time I mention prose poetry, I look it up but I still have no idea. My working definition is that it involves text that doesn’t claim to be a poem but is structured similarly, uses words in a poetic manner – some of them unusual, flows like a stream that makes its own banks, and that has none of the rigidity of a … Continue reading Films and animations of paintings
She’s Just a Girl
She’s just a girl sitting on a bench watching waves Just a girl sitting on a bench asking the sky what it all means, and did it ever mean anything at all Just a girl sitting on a bench wondering … Continue reading She’s Just a Girl
Digital stop-motion
I’m beginning to think that the first few times you do something new, it takes around 90% of the total time it will ever take you in the future, especially if you have cats. This began as a kind of … Continue reading Digital stop-motion
Strayfish Arts 