15th July, 2025. Probably along with many other communities, our village puts unused, grown-out-of, unwanted items out onto our driveways or walls for other people to take and a little while ago a small bear appeared on a wall down … Continue reading Ted Talk
Begun 28th June, reporting 5th July 2025. This is Lancing seafront where a promenade emerges from behind some flats at one end and disappears into the far distance at the other. The beach is all pebbles and shingle except on … Continue reading Weather Systems
I came across a group hugging the fence by the path. Sometimes they’re steers – neutered males being raised for the meat market, other times they’re cows turned out onto grass after a winter indoors on hay, a move that … Continue reading Rural means there are ungulates
Serendipity can be the mother of persistence. I’d left the shadows behind until I came across a roll of self adhesive silver foil in a drawer and immediately thought of making a very different kind of void from my parade … Continue reading Shadow Army – new recruits
Sometimes it’s about screening. I’ve never had to hold in place a 2x4M wooden octopus but it would have been good practice for keeping upright what is now quite obviously an installation while it was pinned in place with posts … Continue reading Art isn’t always about meaning …
I have an area at the bottom of my garden that I want to screen and also brighten up so I bought two panels of 2M x 4M bamboo along with some metal posts to keep them in place. So … Continue reading And now it’s fences
I’ve been including cats in my paintings, largely because they’re in most of my photos, and making a supreme effort to have them as cat shapes in the same way the foliage hints at what it might be rather than … Continue reading Post 3.3 second tutorial
Titled after Joshua Idehan’s track available here. There have been so many disruptions in recent days, I managed to make a painting without posting a single image along the way. This is a retrospective post. I’ve very rarely, if ever, … Continue reading Patio #3 or ‘Your Mum Does the Washing’
After mucking up the muses by over-working them (https://strayfisharts.com/2025/04/06/shadow-army/) I took another run at the shadows today. Different shadows or I’m pretty sure I’d have repeated the nonsense. This time I made four A3 sized paintings using the same starting … Continue reading Shadow Army #2
With no clear notion of why, I took photos of my shadow a while ago, performed a bit of digital magic with them, then abandoned them to Google. The whole shadow idea has re-emerged once again as the USA is … Continue reading Shadow Army
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