Thursday 17 April 2014

End of a studio


Apr.2014
End of a studio


The Mills and water at Bharmor H.P.


Goodbye Ladywood studio, I will miss you from time to time.
All things must pass and you were very cold in the winter.





one of Joes mirrors

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Bed in the hut I built, a great way to work, sort-out the stuff to be done - have a few beers- sleep, then hit the ground running early in the morning.

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Dictator with a heart




My Hut





A poem, between night and dawn. From Bromley,  London Surrey Arts.

"A good place for an ambush" from Achilles Shield (but not on the blog yet!)
http://umphries.blogspot.co.uk/p/achilles-shield.html
(highlight & right click)

the right hand view with some miss & unused stained glass (lights)



"Artists at Work" from the Cube in Erdington, on a back to front snap in another of Joe's concave mirrors

Eternal Balloons, by Chris Clinton - a baloon is for life - not just Christmas










what was left of the stained glass triptich from Hasankeyf in S.E. Turkey and the top of the e.e.cummings  poem underneath

screw selection



Wize words he he 


Places







A brother for "peeps!".
Again, after looking through recent sketch books, kept in a diary fashion. I've picked a selection of images that I feel I would like to analyse or at least look at away from their "bound habitat"



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May 2012.




Two possibles for building with mache.
September 13 Erdington.







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Footnote - Arf Arf, I still haven't learnt how to say no.
Erdington June 12.



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Contemporary drawings for the Gosani Palace.
August 12

I really didn't want to haggle over the rickshaw fare on the way back to the houseboat. They used to congregate in the leafy parking spaces opposite the hospital.
I used to pay 50 paisa over the three Rps going rate legitimate fare, as a result - the journey was relaxed, in fact, even fun and also as a result they used to go for me first - bring a chum along for the ride.
I loved it!




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Drawing for "the Gosani Palace" blog. My view of the subject, that I previously covered in 1983.
"And Turning"- The rhythm of a Chicara turning in mid current.









"Lights on the far bank" also coverage from 1983.


Follow up to "An Incident at Sea"







September 12 Erdington.





Recent drawings from the set of work entitled "swan song" which covered my feelings as to the death of my mother on Christmas morning.
I wanted to cover the end of life as a kind of glowing affair, even though that is what it is not.
I didn't want to portray this grey, cold and miserable month.
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Two very recent felt tip pen doodles performed in front of a glowing T.V.

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Working design for "The Edge"

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Drawings from May last year (13) largely centered around bluebells!




















Dreams are the same as you,
they are your being.
May 2013.


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From Little Orchard Village, St Agnes.
My general layout of the feel of the huts on the other side.
July 2011.

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July 13 Erdington.
I can hear the grass grow.

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Sheerness

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Sheerness. 29.5.12.
Footnote to the picture - I've been writing my memoirs all my life.



Peeps



 



I've trawled through a handful of sketch and note books from the last couple of years and come up with these images, which seem to be either past by of preliminaries for something larger.

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Characters living behind a waterfall



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Family Portrait

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Face for the first Edge (based on Julian)
December 2012.

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Christmas Angel for Sean Tighe.
December 13.


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Initial drawing for a double wardrobe door. March 14 Erdington.


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24th Sept 13
Questions about: starting & finishing, perseverance, frustration, inertia & discipline.
Connected to correspondence with Ruth Parke.


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(Add "Janice")


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Don't put words into my mouth.
Following on from an aggressive T.V. interviewer - news night type of thing. I get tired of how they all seem to think that they have the right to constantly challenge, in a kind of interrogation type of technique.


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First drawing for a set of kitchen cabinet doors (re-started).
It was also my Facebook profile for a while.
June 12.


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First image for the "is painting dead" blog page.

It has a large (unavoidable) empty space at the very start. The server on my machine is playing up, so I took the images to the library to upload, which seemingly presented me with a whole new set of problems!


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