Journal: Decision time – drawings v paintings – View from Here
N.B. this entry revised ( see above ) – due to brochure statement. Now simply the 12 canvasses as originally intended. Force of circumstance. With three weeks to go until …
Robert Plot’s Natural History of Oxfordshire
Fascinated by this book which I have a facsimile of. Drawing above refers to section where stones that look like horses illustrated……pre-scientific groupings based on ‘likeness’ and similitude….links to Simon …
Journal: Mentoring session #2..West of Rome
Luneberg Heath…W.G.Sebald discussed….blood and soil? Met with mentor last night and a very productive session. By coincidence we both come from a similar rural background. Main points raised were …
Tony Fitzpatrick
http://www.tonyfitzpatrick.com/
Alez Meszmer: From Sharkforum
So many interesting points in Alex’s post I cut and paste whole article with my cartoon to here.. Cartoon by Moogee the Art Dog, ask Nottingham UK Art is booming …
Ad Rienhardt Cartoons
Ad Reinhardt, doctor originally an Abstract Expressionist Painter, cialis is an artist whose work became progressively reductivist and mystical. He is best known for his all black paintings of the …
Pre-Easter blues and gold
Well I’m still standing and still on course…but having had to rein in most of my ideas to safe level. Basically have to complete 12 canvasses/collages by April 21st (about …
Saul Steinberg
My mentor mentioned Saul Steinberg and I been looking at his work. Love it and can see had big influence on Hockney too. Saul Steinberg: Illuminations This major traveling retrospective, …
Lizzie Hall: Paintings
Really good Australian painter given me ideas for off-stretcher display of larger work seeing as cannot transport large fixed canvasses http://www.lizziehall.com.au/ ‘Grey Crosses’ 2007, sick oil, wax, conte on canvas …
Photos – February
A series of 30 photographs taken around the north side of Nottingham.