on a sideline...

All kinds of materials are being delivered for Art link's anniversary show. Cat Pamuk loves it - or rather the boxes.
Please note: this is a 6kg (XXL) cat in a A4 size box.

Shoal

Working for Artlink's 30th anniversary show (see Events). What has been on the horizon line for quite a while suddenly broke into reality.

Two pieces related to the Humber area will be on display. Seascape [Fr-Agile] will finally have a come back, in its home town of Hull(!). Shoal, a new installation, will be composed of stones donated by the public. It will be a work in progress into the first week(s) of the exhibition.

material drawings

Experimenting with oil pastel on treated tissue paper; contemplating shapes and forms seen in nature.

Study

Clay and wool - Earth and Fire,
or rather Warmth.


It's May and still cold up here, temperatures struggling to reach double digits ...

Change of perception

You may have noticed that the theme of this page has changed to 'Notions and Processes'.

I felt that this blog has become sort of a logbook for images, thoughts and perceptions I find along the way. This is at the moment more in line with my meandering way of working than 'Work in Progress', which suggests a straight and purposeful way of working.

Interlude

More 'screen print debris', see last post.








(Post Scripted, date and time of image)

On loom printing

Printing residue

Working on the loom. Weaving and printing.
 
It took a moment to resolve some technical issues, but now I can concentrate on the thump and rhythm of weaving. This is meant to be a test-run - for a series of new works.



For now the 'debris' of the printing process is much more photogenic than the work in progress itself, see below.




 

Drawings in the sky

White&black

Walking my life not star- but tree-gazing: the weather during this dark time of the year has been mild and often sunny, leaving the air and the bare branches of the trees bathed in this soft clear light of the wintry sun.

Black&white

Traces of light

The trees look like drawn into the sky, it's as if each species had its own handwriting. On my daily walks I captured some as mobile-pics - black&white, sometimes turned into white&black.

Now the weather has become cold and wintry, with a dusting of snow and it's fine to sit in the studio dealing with this machine that I've been loathing.

Otherwise in the studio, play-working on different issues; sort of: "one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration ...".

See also: Tree contact sheet

'Between the Years'

Leap
(Burned orange juice on paper)

A new beginning (it is a leap-year by the way - pun intended), the days becoming lighter. Time seems to fly, while standing still - life suspended in slow motion, yet flying by.

So am I. There are plans, not fixed. They linger in the atmosphere, like an energy waiting to reveal itself - or to dissolve.

It's these days 'Between the Years' - as one says in German - this time-gap between the lunar and the solar year, the twelve nights after 25 Dec.

Time ...

... to watch, listen, smell, read, think











'Silence is the soul's oxygen' CM

Skinned Moon

right

rear

front

One of the fledglings made in September (see last post).

Thin silk threads, dark-blue, with a white half moon and a hollow spherical shape at the bottom - hard to capture as photo. Click thumbnails to enlarge.

Shown at Cupola Gallery, Sheffield, this Oct / Nov (Artificial Light) ... and sold.

Skinned Moon

Skinned Moon @
Artificial Light / Cupola Gallery / Sheffield

7 October - 13 November 2011

See also Blog, 17 November 2011