What you work with is what drives the work? It certainly helps if you know what you are doing, research is key and courage and curiosity helps. That leap of faith will either land you in the the mire or triumphantly on the crest of the hill. The Leonardo exhibition had lovely display cases full…
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Week 14:Why does a place resonate “They blister up out of space time”.
Thank you Alan Moore head. Alan Moore, why did I not make the connection between these two earlier? I first discovered Alan Moore while endeavouring to engage my children with stories, pictures and writing. Anything to get the homework done. A friend gave me a tip, too pointed for my tender children at that time…
Week 14:Leonardo De Vinci is Cool.
HAMLET-There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. HORATIO-That is most certain. -William Shakespear, Hamlet-Act 5 scene 2 1564–1616 There was a ping and this landed in my In Box this morning Knowing there is always a reason for everthing, I picked up the thread and pulled. Tap on image to…
Week 14: When two things collide and get stuck in a Sandwich.
Named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, an eighteenth-century English aristocrat. It is said that he ordered his valet to bring him meat tucked between two pieces of bread, and others began to order “the same as Sandwich”. Ideas and execution We are sandwiched between the earth and the sky. We are sandwiched between…
Week 14: GHR & why do we paint?
Artist state a lot of things Gerhard Richter’s statements are about not knowing things. Gerhard Richter is wary of all ideologies and of all exclusive claims on the truth. Having grown up under two totalitarian regimes, first in Nazi Germany and secondly in communist East Germany, he has every cause to be mistrustful of people…
Week 14: Vija Celmins & why do we paint?
Artists’ statements research. This was a new take for me. No story. Interesting. Although I can see a story. https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/vija-celmins Transcript: Vija Celmins: I don’t think there was ever a point where I said, “I’m gonna be, you know, an artist.” No. It seeped in. I was looking for something. I went to two paintings…
Week 14: Tearing up the Town.
Writing my Navigators critical essay has been a challenge. It has been torn up a few times made into a collage and then incorporated in a jar I was making/trying to make, my favourite type of making-no rules, feel your way through it. It collapsed I fixed it with my essay and rabbit skin glue…
Week 14: Where do painters learn from?
There are two well held views. Reading through the information from and looking forward to Bridget Riley’s new exhibition arriving at the Hayward Gallery later this month I spot both. https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/blog/five-things-know-about-bridget-riley Riley spent her childhood in Cornwall, and she credits the Cornish landscape – its ‘bosky woods and secretive valleys’, its ‘changing seas and skies’…
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