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| Moving Boa and petal. (with me not included in the way it was supposed to look) Produced under the watchful eye of Arthur Wilson my main lecturer on my foundation course whose sons I had grown up with and who are (very much) artists in their own right. This stalled when I took on a traditional painting course. But perked up again when the family bought Shipping Hill and hands on constructive stuff came into play. The one comment here about the psychedelia of the late sixties - which did, I must say carry on in its own sweet way quietly unabated. |
My initial response was I doubt if I can get to a P.C. five days in a row.
So - how about one image per decade since 1970?
--- bit like Genesis - play around with what time actually seems to be (and everyone knows it's always Thursday in eternity anyway.)
3rd Feb,
Robbin,
Previously, I've been able to put out/publish very skeletal blog posts and simply build them up brick by brick as it were. At the moment, I'm getting hits on posts pretty immediately - so, if it's a relatively important topic, I feel it difficult to share at an embryonic stage - maybe I shouldn't.
Whatever I am working on your 5day post suggestion - it's just that I'm taking it down my own route.
Instead of one post each day 5 times,
how about 5 posts to cover each decade of my art output?
THIS IS DIFFICULT AND WILL TAKE SOME CHOPPING AND CHANGING.
A process I hope to cover within the post. I will publish it (and let you know) when I get past the embryo and move to a bare skeleton stage!
Maybe a big part of this blog stuff is about process. Maybe, I should be taking that more into account - I'll include this at the top of the post.
Unfortunately - this as a task and as I stand on the matter
is more than I can undertake!
So, I started thinking,
How about five different routes of creativity? (during five decades)
So:
The Straight. Paintings
The Weird.
Projects.
Murals.
3D
Maybe I will be able, eventually, to narrow it down (one day)
And - as I stand, maybe initially (how about) five of these for each decade, then narrow it down? (ha ha)
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| All done with mirrors - well mirrortex or something similar. Oh the creative naivety of foundation courses!!! |
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| Gerald Hone, gets beer money from art. Epsom 1972. I mainly learnt (my) techniques of paint application through life painting - a very valid way of going about this I feel - you can't argue with what is actually in front of you. I feel there seems to be just a touch of the Cezanne in this one. |
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| Brambles 73. A floodlit scene in my Epsom studio - they don't take em like this anymore! I suppose I made my first "mark" with panels here - specifically from a Japanese angle - was Japanese art "hip" in the early 70's? (Followed by Carousel C.95 Yenton Panels 98 and the Argonauts 09 Am I going for big compositions as being representative of my work ? |
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| The brambles was the first painting (I think) I did on my todd: self imposed isolation in a small caravan on virgin land. Situated in a grove of chestnuts planted by my father and I in '71. John Hacker said I was defeated by paint - the layers maybe! But it was a fair step into the "compositional blue". |
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| From a show entitled "The Seasons" at the Garnsworthy Hall, Epsom 1975 My main comment, maybe a coming together of stuff I had learnt at art collage. Maybe a reaction to the face that I hadn't got onto a prominent London post grad course. |
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| but started in the late 70's! In Rupert Crane's house in Canton, Cardiff, with the arrival of a large cold. Taking, in fact, many years to (nearly) complete. |
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| Spirits need homes, from Sukhuthai, the piece that a show was named after.(Haverfordwest 88) Mind, spirits do need homes! |
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| Big day out, started out as a poster for the Brekon Jazz festival and became a painting. Stolen from me by a thieving lawyer in Cardiff. |
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| Across to Burma |
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| The Emerald Buddha, Bangkok. Painted n a fantastic studio in Cardiff, over the covered market overlooking St Mary Street. That used to be half a pool hall. |
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| The Rhonda Mural team, posing with extreme grace. C. 1986 |
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| conceived during pregnancy, banged out during toddler years and performed with the advent of school. |
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| Natraja and me |
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| The Dancing Siva I always wanted to bring back a dancing Siva during the first stay in India 79-80. A certain Phillip Railstone commented on, me being an artist, why not make one for myself. It took a long time to collect the various bits of scrap wood, mind on having started a stock pile becomes easier to amass. This was produced in time for the Johnny Eidetic show in Narberth 1998. |
Me-ism
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| The seasons panels, Featherstone Nursery School C.96 |
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| Panels from the school curriculum Yenton Infant School. |
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| Show at St Martins 2003, following on pretty well directly after the M.A. Comment below from the time The cock on top of a metal tower, suited to go in a back garden. The hierarchy decided that it was too scruffy to go as near to the entrance as it did, maybe it was their reaction to all the building work going on outside.
Myself, I think it looks fantastic!
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| Very fortunate timing for me after the M.A. at Margaret Street, then the show at St Martins. An immediate entry into a very big art project without any frills. The whole thing was set up and run by Dave Pollard - I think of him affectionately like Ataturk - A benevolent dictator in my books -he made it work. This was a space designed to accommodate all on an equal footing - like nobility in fact. |
West Brom Tree-house
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| I could have lived in this. A perfect "cafe" for me - I was given free reign and I loved it. |
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| One of the pages of graphics associated with the "installation" |
Link to images of mural:
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| When Bob Morris left his studio in Gt. Tindle St. He left me loads of 8ft x 4ft Polystyrene. Where could I use these and where would they go? A WAITING MURAL Christ! I don't know where the Argonauts came from, the idea must have followed Achilles Shield. Basically a kind of installation round the ground windows of the (old) central library in Birmingham. |
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| Banner for the festival, produced mainly on corel draw in vector format. The figure on the front was our glorious leader: Dave Pollard. |
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| The festival of Extreme building, the event with banner. |
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| The Balti Chariot Following in the lines of giant Hindu festival chariots. Made for the Green Street show in Digbeth Birmingham when it became public art, the poor bugger only lasted two nights, |
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| I first painted a chestnuts painting in Bromley back in '76 (photo to come ~ with any luck!) It was straight from the hip, in oils, in one go. After a solitary day in autumnal woods, guided by mescaline. Maybe it was a pre-runner of my doodled personages, it was certainly me painting figuratively without hindrance of thought - complete honesty. Anyway I found the original, rotting in an attic and covered in bat shit. Restored it and decided it needed another go. Not being able to reciprocate the original from every angle * * * * this came from a doodle which I built up faithfully, trying to keep the original spark of creativeness - the same freshness. Fashioned on two large drawers stuck together from the old place and slowly building it up using a lot of papier-mâché. A very enjoyable process in a painterly fashion. |
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| Fir mosaic, for above the kitchen sink at Shipping Hill. The image that went on slowly evolving during the summer. It is finished but I don't have a picture available of it in situ. |
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| from a water-colour of old Ankara that I produced in 1990 in Turkey. The aim was to get the vitality that I had achieved with the w/c - always a hard objective to achieve as it is easy to produce a stereotyped, predetermined and comparatively flat statement. |
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| The water divider. The spot at the top of the drive where surface rain drain water rivulets run both ways. And there is a lot of it. |
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| My last comment at Shipping Hill with two balls of light inserted, the ribs move with the wind and I'm sure its some kind of dragon. |
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| I'll bung this in as it's pretty well the last thing I'm convinced I've completed and fits into an on going body of work based around the seasons which I've been doing since the early 70's.
So far so good, I have actually run out of steam. But there are pretty well five examples for each decade. I'll leave picking one representative per decade for later!
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