Three Heads are better than One



 -by making something aren’t you inevitably communicating something to others – ‘this is who I am/ what I think/ how I feel’ – even if only as a by product?
Ruth Parke

 

 

What I think

 

 

 

 

How I feel

 

 

 

Who I am (as oppose to who am I?)

 

Well - the guy clutching the world to his breast wishes they would leave him alone. Bird Hands is the scout of the group and actually annoys the other two quite often - although he does hold a certain amount of empathy for the cat in the hat. Mind he thinks he's a bit of a weed, really ought to get it a bit more together.

Autumn on Shipping Hill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Roualt

4th Oct.



The philosophy behind not really caring where the work goes.

-choosing a path with a heart- as all paths lead nowhere.
Gives one the right chance to milk given directions- as it doesn't matter about the amount of attention given to (this) insignificant affair.

This "page" covering two months is a follow on from 72 Chestnuts -  a painting from Bromley 1972.
This painting was thrust under the roof, semi rotted and was covered in bat shit. I decided that its resurrection - along with Shipping Hill itself (after suffering a similar fate) would be a path with a heart.
Unfortunately, at present I don't have an image for the above picture.

5th Oct.

(just) where does psychology start and philosophy end?

The start of an outrageous Australian joke

THE RETURN of the NATIVE

 

 

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The view from the top as it was when Jim lived at the Hill. And how it practically does today after the forestry "harvest"













 

---- Is virtual showing a copout or a real alternative / addition to "live" showing?
Its certainly an alternative, if you cant do the live stuff.
Sometimes showing is not worth the effort, isn't the effort more in the creativity than in the showing?
Ruth Parke

8th Oct.

The web (blog) - a digital diary. Maybe I use it like that.
Walk five miles with me.

 

 



9th Oct.

TO DO

TA DA

10th Oct.

Chestnuts: I want it with an Indian Red, Raw Sienna, Indigo balance. Tempered with Icy leaf frost and acid decaying lemon.

11th Oct.

Art can be crafted, beautifully produced etc., but it also has to provoke grunts like huh? and wow!

12th Oct.

 

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Moderation - not a ghost of a chance!

Grayson Perry: humour in art.
A difficult / dangerous route - but that's what its all about.

13th Oct.

Digital art is hardly Tao purity, a cutting edge ability to perform and produce.
But, it can be turned to contain these elements.
1 to 1 relationships to share what you do.

Containing less profit for artists, but no controllers and more space for more creators.

14th Oct.
The snail that died trying (dried).

 

 

 



16th Oct.

COMING UP TO FULL MOON AT THE OLD FOLKS HOME.





Redefine 13 chestnut faces.

17th Oct.
Notes of the spirit world. (little book)

Writing on the backs of paintings.

19th Oct.
SQIRRELS / SHARING THE WORKSHOP WITH SQIRRELS.

20th Oct.

21ist Oct.
Front door bed.

22nd Oct.
The last salad.



23rd Oct.

the meal that ate me

23rd Oct.
Two brushes

 

Introvert / extrovert.

 

24th Oct.

 

Autumnal Woodland Disco.



25th Oct.
Frozen iffy dripping curry.
the bed
deb eht

26th Oct.
Julian Alice x Millie.

 

Alice x Millie




Stove notes from Julian Pefanis

 

30th Oct.

New runner for the stairs.

 

 

1st Nov.

Illustrating a waking dream.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Start of another song list.

 



2nd Nov.
Worthless,
Do I have to give everything up?
start again
ouch.

4th Nov.

5th Nov.
Arrival of mobile.

Grayson Perry: Why did I take on art as a kid?
Because of the insecurity of Latymer Upper.
(his refuse - when he's an artist. Maybe when he has refused as well!)

6th Nov.
Just so many trips around the sun.

 

 

 

 

Black frame?

7th Nov.

 








 

9th Nov.
Empty

10th Nov.





11th Nov.
Pointless.
All of a sudden.
I haven't spoken to anyone for many days.

Upgrade for an Autumnal Woodland Disco

 

12th Nov.
Survival mode.

What do I want and what do I need?                         

It's

Fucking

Painting.

13th Nov.
Arrival of U.S. Mail Box.

The Post People have decided that the drive is unfit for use any more and have supplied me with a shiny post box which I am in the process of hiding.

 

 

Autumnal Woodland Disco - 1st coat.

14th Nov.
Build something with the dead eucalyptus.
Ms. Twolivewires.

 

Alice: if 1 says its art - o.k. its art!



15th Nov.

Mache recipe for a potter.

Presented on a lino floor that has held many years of story.

16th Nov. Tenby.

 

 

 

 

 

Catherine x Simon Rich.

 

 

17th Nov.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



18th Nov.

 

13 Chestnuts

 

1st Oct 13

 

How do you spend four weeks alone and stay sane? Ruth Parke

When I paint, I am alone - in some ways, the better the painting: the more alone. Especially if or when I am following the Tao manifest of "the idea precedes the mark"
So, I suppose in some ways I am already stepping up to "being by yourself" plate.

It was the isolation and total lack of communication that was difficult. Even not having T.V. was difficult - not that I watch a lot of it, but it does form some sort of alternative entertainment.

Practically speaking, I simply worked - slowly, all the time. Switching from decorating and minor building to painting.

I didn't have any self restraints and occasionally would find myself working, one way or another into the middle of the night.

There was a whole range of emotion - from utter delight at life to pointless emptiness. I wondered at times if the word manic came into play at all.