Saturday 31 December 2011

drawing #17
2 views of same (flat) stone
oil pastels on paper

From 'What Painting Is' by james Elkins

'There might be a world of difference between a greasy oil and an oily grease, or a reddish white and a whitish red'

Friday 30 December 2011

Wednesday 28 December 2011

drawing #16
triptych (3 different views of same pebble)
53 x 26 cm

Extract from ‘Interviews with Francis Bacon’ by David Sylvester

F.B. …. I’m just trying to make images as accurately off my nervous system as I can. I don’t even know what half of them mean. I’m not saying anything. Whether one’s saying anything for other people, I don’t know. But I’m not really saying anything, because I’m probably much more concerned with the aesthetic qualities of a work than, perhaps, Munch was. But I’ve no idea what any artist is trying to say, except the most banal artists, I can think what Fuseli and people like that are trying to say.

D.S. Perhaps the tendency to interpret your work as saying something comes from the fact that people like to try and find a story in art and are rather starved of stories in the art of the times, so that, when they find an art like yours, it’s a great temptation to weave stories.

F.B. Yes, I’m sure it is.

D.S. Something similar has happened with Giacometti – the tendency to interpret his figures as Existential Man.

F.B. And how did he feel about that?

D.S. He thought it was rather crass. He said he was only trying to copy what he saw.

F.B. Exactly.

Sunday 25 December 2011

Thursday 22 December 2011

painting #2 (when is a painting not a drawing, and vice versa!?)
tempera, acrylics and pen &ink on paper
38 x 26 cm

Tuesday 20 December 2011

Saturday 17 December 2011

Friday 16 December 2011

Friday 9 December 2011

drawing #6
pen & ink on paper
drawing #5
pen & ink on paper

drawing #4
pen & ink on paper

drawing #3
pen & ink on paper
drawing #2
pen & ink on paper
drawing #1
pen & ink on paper
Sarah
acrylics on canvas
90 x 90 cm
sold
Tim
acrylics on canvas
65 x 90 cm
sold
Sue
acrylics on canvas
66 x 84 cm
sold
Sarah
acrylics on canvas
65 x 90
sold




Alan
acrylics on canvas
65 x 90 cm
sold

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