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Thursday, November 22, 2007
Sorry that there hasn't been a blog entry in so many months. I have been so busy with my life that I am afraid to say that art has taken a back seat. That is not to say that I have not been producing art when I feel so inclined.
Music Girl - October 07 - For Sale £45
This piece is all about how people on the go have to be listening to their music and they are losing out on the sounds of the city. Ipods are to blame for future deafness on mass!
Slanted and Enchanted - October 07 - For Sale - £45
This piece is all about the way that modern architecture is falling away from traditional shapes in the UK and going for a more Swedish look with the shapes of the roofs and the nature of the over all shape of the buildings.
Stained Glass Tomorrows - October 07 - For Sale - £120
This piece started out as an abstract, but due to the fact that I had a lot of black paint, I decided to make it look like a stained glass window.
Suicide Blonde - October 07 - For Sale - £45
Based on the song by Inxs I saw this model in a porn magazine and decide to make her into a Icon of the twenty-first century. I like the way that she is clearly wearing a wig.
Sunset Apartments - October 07 - For Sale - £200
This continues from the paintings of last year and the year before. I likened it to the sun going down on a hill side full of apartments blocks and I love the colours that are warm and inviting.
Autumn Sunrise - October 07 - For Sale - £50
This is the darker side of life, as summer ends so we have autumn and the darker nights, rain and coldness that leads us into winter.
Fields - September 07 - For Sale - £50
This piece is based on an aerial photograph of farmers fields and it has bright colours that spell out another season of joy, summer.
Glamour Junk - October 07 - For Sale - £40
The glamour model icon of modern advertising is hit with the powerful words of advertising. Bombarding us with the message that is missed completely.
Lucy in the Junk - October 07 - For Sale - £40
Another message of easy pornography in the twenty-first century. How it is used and over used to sell all most everything including sex.
Model Junk - October 07 - For Sale - £40
Another chance to expose the soft-core element of advertising in this easy target of modern advertising. The words get bigger and so do the profits.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
This is a collection of pieces that I have been working on from August to September. There are painted collages and soon the new paintings will be exposed on my blog.
Monday, August 13, 2007
Turner exhibited his first oil painting at the Royal Academy, Fishermen at Sea, in 1796, when he was twenty-one. Success came relatively early, and in 1803, at the age of twenty-seven, he began work on the spacious gallery in his house in Harley Street, which not only advertised his achievements but provided a more sympathetic setting for some pictures than the crowded walls of the Great Exhibition Room at the Royal Academy. Nevertheless, he continued to exhibit at the RA and, unlike a number of other British artists, he remained involved with the Academy throughout his career. He become an Associate Member in 1799, aged twenty-four, and a full Member in 1802, as well as being elected Professor of Perspective in 1811, and appointed acting President in 1845.
In his later life he began sending to the Academy exhibitions unfinished canvases which one contemporary described as being 'without form and void, like chaos before the creation'. He would then complete them in the exhibition room on Varnishing Days, virtuoso performances which soon became legendary'. from Tate Britain website.
It has been a chance to use tinfoil again. I liked the pattern on the bottom girl's outfit. I used lots of colours to make this as bright as I could.
It was an attempt to pass comment on the increase in traffic all over the world. This picture was taken in Italy. I like the banners of colour in the mosiac patterning.
Drift mining and a politicial comment on the fall of mining in the UK.
'The Bride and her futuristic Groom' - June 07 - For Sale - £50
'A view of the Heavens' - July 07 - For Sale - £50
'Cos we talk about love/And the Psycho-Mafia/I'm talking 'bout love/And the Psycho-Mafia
No soul in the discos/No rock in the clubs/Won't let us in the pubs/And the city joys
Going on about love/And the Psycho-Mafia/I'm talking about love/And the Psycho-Mafia
Psycho-Mafia/Psycho-Mafia/'cho /Mafia/'cho Mafia.
'Dancing Faun' - July 07 - For Sale - £45
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
In this collection of new pieces I am returning to an early more simple style. It is a chance for me to re-invent myself and as life has been very busy for me it gives me the ease of producing work in a shorter space of time.
Mr Smooth - July 2007 - For Sale - £35
Monday, July 16, 2007
As part of the Poets Corner Summer Festival Family Fun Day on Saturday 14th July 2007, I exhibited 4 pieces of my work. I composed a piece called "Paris, France" as the Festival theme this year is French. One piece, Mr. Smooth was done only a few nights before. 'Girlfriend' was also produced a few days before. 'Three Ladies" was damaged on the way home and has been destroyed. I will be composing another piece with the same theme in the very near future.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Here is the first entry since adding all my preivous blogs from the AOL journal.
All these collaged pieces have not used the mosaic patterning that I am known for and I have attempted with a few of the new pictures to attempt to use other techniques.
1. 'Old Havana' - June 07 - For Sale - £40
This piece is the first where I have used tissue paper to give some depth to the piece and another type of texture. The title comes from the map that is pasted into the piece and it also uses a lot of thicker pieces of paper from books.
2. 'Icarus of Modern Times' - June 07 - For Sale - £35
This is a follow on from 'Jesus of Modern times' that I constructed last year. I like the fact that this modern day Icarus has glass wings that show the clouds of the sky. This is a painted called the Lament of Icarus by Herbert James Draper and shows him after going to close to the sun and falling from the sky. This pictures I used to have on my desk when I work at Mercury and I used to look at it alot when I was on a difficult call. I love the symbolism of Icarus and what it stands for.
4. Half Sisters - June 07 - For Sale - £40