28.11.07
thoughts
Some things I want to look at in my artwork visually...I am enjoying working with the fine line between the recognizable and the abstract. I like when things have qualities or elements of something understood or recognizable and/or bring to mind, remind the viewer of something they understand or know(and this can be color, shape, texture, surface, image, line) and yet are also abstract enough or illusive neough that they are not those things that they remind the viewer of. Indistinct yet reminiscent. Detailed yet also abstract. I do not want the viewers interest to dissove- and I think this can happen by something being either too direct or being too astract and vague. There needs to be something for the viewer to grasp and understand yet also to play with in some way, metally, visually, emotionally.
Illusive qualities are within gardens. They are felt in the turned spring ground, waiting for something to appear, not knowing whether it will. When something does appear is it a weed or is it a plant, will it reach fruition and become something beautiful or will it not make it through a frost or rain or bad soil...illusive and also a sense of anxiety and tension.
Distance and Closeness
Detail and Abstraction
Symbols (recognizable elements and the unrecognisable of illusive)
25.11.07
So I have been taking my paintings and photographing them, then taking photographs of the garden and putting one on top of another to create new compositions for painting...Duston and I discussed drawing from the work I had already done so I have been doing that a bit, I'm enjoying working from the work. Looking at Michael Singer again, I love his sense of line, so lyrical. The final leaves that are left hanging on some trees and plants are twisted and folded and gorgeous colors against the gray of the sky and water...they are gentle and fragile but obviously much stronger than all the other leaves and the elements. They manage to hang on, even if it is just dangling and twisting in the icy wind.
The colors now are all muted with then occasionally a blast of rich deep bright color to contrast. Strange almost spring like greens and then olives and oranges. The color of the birch panel comes through in places and is the exact color I am looking for. Loving the hard solid wood that can take and take the color and sanding and bashing about. Am thinking about painting them on both sides...perhaps cos I know I shouldn't and this is interesting...pushing at things and trying to play a bit more. It can all too often get stagnant and done...
