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This is the second commission received this week, and as per my previous post, it will have to remain private until it’s either deemed unsuitable by the publisher or made public via the traditional cover reveal. 17th JULY UPDATE: COVER … Continue reading Tokyo Ghost
Way back, we had a maths teacher who is said to have advised students, ‘If you can’t answer the question, draw an elephant’. This is the obverse; a series of art questions I find I can’t answer because of their … Continue reading Assignment 4
My contemporaneous account of the making process is here. In the course of completing this series, I have collected ideas and links to previous work related to the newcomer artistic enterprise of anthroposcenic landscapes. This is beginning to settle into … Continue reading Assignment 3 – four paintings
Anthropocene, or ‘the age of humans’; Anthroposcenic*, human intrusions into the natural world. There is hardly anywhere we are not. Hardly a place where we haven’t left our mark. Nowhere we haven’t influenced. Often for good but almost always in … Continue reading Assignment 3 – Anthroposcenic
For reasons discussed elsewhere, upright flat surfaces and film are my primary expressions of artistic enterprise rather than anything requiring manipulation. With that in mind, I have still produced work that has surprised me, and found techniques that I know … Continue reading Assignment evaluation Part 2
This requires a reflection on previous work involving space and three dimensions. Without rehearsing the problems I’ve had with close compliance with those tasks, I’m taking a slightly different path, at least in this experimental phase, and using whatever the … Continue reading Assignment 2
The final series of images is a combination of learning from previous modules and in-situ serendipity whereby something unusual happened because of light and reflections being different in my new space. The first image (green) began as randomly as I … Continue reading Assignment 1, reflective account
The task is to “develop a series of pieces based around the ideas, approaches, and reflections explored in Part One.” This is quite a broad brief which means it has the potential to be free of specifics but also somewhat … Continue reading Part 1, Assignment 1
Following a discussion with my tutor about matters such as impact and the artistry of art, I am submitting this video, made in response to the curation task, as my final assignment. The curation post can be found here. The … Continue reading Assignment 5 – revised submission content
Assignment 5, on the theme of environment, comprises five pairs of paintings following the demolition and rebuilding of my conservatory/studio over four months in 2020/21. The pairs further comprises a primary painting and a folded print of that piece as individual layers or blocks of paint were applied; and each pair reflects a different stage in the build. By evolution rather than predetermined plan, the pairs also reflect different artistic influences from Chinese to architectural. These are accompanied by texts – the ones on the painting tending towards the more pragmatic or factual, and on the print, rather more mystical … Continue reading Assignment 5: final images and animations
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