Art With StarFields

April 14, 2007

Dino Ice

More fun with clingfilm and sellotape. What a fabulous medium. Light being captured in the many layers and giving perfect sense of solidified energy. Very soothing to do.

I like the way that this object, as it turns with the wind, looks completely different and the shape changes so considerably, depending which way one looks at it ... Apart from that, it is said to attract angel beings to one's home and garden.

Venus Goddess Voodoo Doll

For more about voodoo and how this doll was made, go here.

February 8, 2007

Berlin

Berlin
Gesso, Acrylics and Misc Media, A4

I recently went to Berlin and when I got home, I thought I might like to do a Berlin painting. As soon as I thought it, I knew exactly how I would do that and a few days after my return, started doing this.

I made nine separate paintings and let them dry. Then I cut them into bits and pasted the bits on a black A4 display board, flattened and squashed them over a few days.

I cut up a second display board and made "the walls" over the top; then I added some decorations.

This was quite an interesting object to make (I think of this more in terms of an object rather than a painting) for a number of reasons.

Most of all, it was very specific in what it "wanted" to have done. A couple of the original paintings were really cute and the thought passed my mind that I'd like to keep them, rather than cut them up. This thought was rejected very definitely, as was the idea to photograph the small paintings before essentially destroying them.

Consciously, I also questioned whether the walls should not be really, REALLY square - measured out with precision, drawn in with a ruler, precise proportions like you would find in Berlin. But again, it was like, "NO, OF COURSE NOT!" I found that interesting, shrugged my shoulders and proceeded as "it wanted me to".

So that's Berlin. A curious object and a curious tribute to a very curious place ...

January 25, 2007

Ice Age

Ice Age, Oil on Linen, 8"x10"

Time Lapse

Genesis Of The German Flag

The Briefest Winter

The town nestles
at the foot of a cliff;
protected
from the winds,
embraced
by the sea.

Mists are gentle here,
silk summers none too hot;
the springs are mild
the autumn storms
most civilised.

And yet, one morning
I awoke to find
beneath a royal sky
of finest blue,
the garden crystalised,
transformed into
a fairy land, strange
world of beauty,
sparkling, magical,
all new it seemed,
all different
and bright, and white.

I went to greet this,
I remained to see the snow
turn clear, turn water,
fall away, time drops
dissolving then to now,
the briefest winter
come and gone.

Teddy Skin

Yes, it's that time of year when teddy bears shed their skins.
Slightly spooky but also very cool to find one ...

November 29, 2006

Birch Pond

Birch Pond
Oil On Linen, 18x22

I've been busy with one thing or the other, but the other night I had a strong feeling that I wanted just to do "a happy little painting that makes you feel good inside". In true Bob Ross spirit, I got a canvas and just started, let it unfold and Birch Pond is the result. I enjoyed painting it and it does make me feel good - calm, happy. It's true and all is as it should be.