27th January. On the morning before completing exercise 4.0, I encountered two real world liminals or transitions. The first at the vet’s where I was making a routine appointment for my cat’s boosters, and the second a little later along … Continue reading Option 4, Ex 4.0.2, liminality, unknowing
Made as a presentation in Canva; video and audio added in Filmora10. Loch Arkaig Osprey – 2020 pair. Video credit from which the stills below are drawn, The Woodland Trust. ___ Loch Arkaig Osprey – 2021 pair. ___ Navy Seal. … Continue reading Mitigation – gallery & presentation; osprey, seal, and spider
Beginning again with an A2 sheet of cartridge, primed with transparent acrylic gesso and with a further layer of gloss varnish, I am making a second painting of osprey on the Loch Arkaig nest. This will be the fourth in … Continue reading Mitigation revisited #3
Back to the lounging seal but this time with more camouflage, less inconsistent, incompatible background. I’m starting with a piece of A2 cartridge, primed in white then layered with gloss varnish because I want the surface to be slippery. These … Continue reading Mitigation revisited #2
I was encouraged during the last tutorial to make some additional pieces for the parallel project. Something more gestural and less tightly controlled. The seal painting having failed dismally, apart from perhaps being faithful to the seal in terms of … Continue reading Mitigation revisited
This is a series of images showing examples of positive anthroposcenery – landscapes in which human intervention has mitigated some of the effects of our previous casual destruction and neglect of our ecosystem. Each full sized static image is hosted … Continue reading Parallel project – Mitigation
I had invested in this quite heavily as much of my previous work had felt less coherent and somewhat detached from what I thought of as my nascent voice. But two things happened to throw that idea; the first was … Continue reading Commentary on the parallel project
I have had a frustratingly barren time lately, distracted by the local art trail and everything that involved and finding myself inventively empty. The previous post evidences my attempts to get back on track and what a bumpy track it … Continue reading Positive anthroposcenery #4 parallel project
The Rhinoceros beetle; currently common in the UK (Wildlife Trust). Its lifecycle depends on dead wood and so it may reasonably expect to outlive us. This painting is in very dilute watercolour on a mirror tile. The effect is to ‘ghost’ the image and put the viewer prominently in the scene. If we don’t reduce our emissions dramatically and quickly, while it may outlive us, this may not be for long. This weird beast with apparent suckers on its margins is a Comma butterfly and I have given up on mirror tiles! 18th August. My intention was to paint a … Continue reading Positive anthroposcenery #2
In my essay for this module, I wrote about finding a route to representing ways in which we could transition, as artists, away from apocalyptic representations of the Anthropocene to a more positive view of human-scale changes we can make … Continue reading Positive anthroposcenery #1
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