Instead of focusing on my painting as being something limited and constrained, even though it has arisen out of limitation and constraint, I have focused instead on the potential it represents. This begins with the blank white surface, a situation I have come to see in terms of the painting’s Negative Capability – the notion […]
Category: Lines
The painting as it is now
The large painting has undergone much transformation from its simple beginnings. Its present state is: My head is overflowing with ideas as to where I can take this, so better to do a load of references in notes to self at the end of this post because writing it all up would be just too much […]
The painting begins
In the first stage of the painting, I begin to set down shapes Shape: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_and_form_(visual_arts) Specifically, it is an enclosed space, the boundaries of which are defined by other elements of art. Shapes are limited to two dimensions: length and width. These shapes grow from within. Each one feels its own extension and is aware of […]
Painting – a continuum
A priority is to keep up the production of new paintings as a continuum. The internal discipline of my studio practice is very much in contrast to that of my attendance at and participation in the residency. My studio practice requires an intense self-discipline and internal energy to ensure that work is actually and continuously […]
Beginning Again
Just back from the London Residency (will document as I go) and beginning the next painting oil on aluminium 50 x 55 cm I am interested specifically in the interaction between these two GIFS just run up after the first passage of paint was completed and photographed: and an endless number of possibilities […]
Living Wall
Note to self: Working on the wall and how to get all the timelines up together and twinkling – should be 4 columns and 3 rows with each space filled with a different timeline. When this post is viewed after preview and/or publishing several spaces are blank and each time exactly which spaces are blank […]
Macrocosmic, Microcosmic.
I look at Hyperallergic and saw this one (linked), and in relation to this some of the works on paper which I have been making in recent years, came into mind. These works are now numerous but I have not yet focused on them, so I think I should begin to, particularly as I briefly […]
And We Begin Again
Beginning the next painting, (125 x 127 cm, oil on aluminium) So here you are and we begin again you are beautiful just as you are I turn you around and around all ways I would like to keep you forever just like this but I can only have you for a short time because […]
Tutorial (2nd) with Jonathan Kearney, 23/01/ 2018 (10.45 am)
(Header image: oil and graphite on paper JWR 2014) I am very invigorated by and grateful for Jonathan’s thoughts and insights regarding my project. Talking in terms of the eventual installation of the GIFs I realise that the paintings, which are so taciturn in their nature, really can be brought out of hiding, untrapped. In envisaging […]