SOS is an acronym for Suffolk Open Studios, a collective of some one hundred and fifty artists from across the county, that, as the name suggests, open their artist studios and creative workspaces for a weekend (or two)... this is my first time as an exhibiting artist with SOS (taking a hiatus from the HWAT collective) - below are three small works that I have put into the SOS members' group exhibition, which opens this weekend at the historic and spendid Blackthorpe Barns...
siam, maroc and cretan 2010, mixed media intaglio collagraphs on paper, mounted on canvas, 5" x 5" x 1.5" - part of a new and ongoing series inspired by virtual travels and colour associations...There are some strange light effects in the barn; tiny holes in the barn's framework where the sunlight squeezes in, scattering unusually bright ovoid lightspots across the artworks...
here is one of the aforementioned intaglio abstracts on canvas...
siam, 2010, mixed media intaglio collagraph on canvas, 5" x 5" x 1.5"
siam, detailSiam, alluded to in the textured striations and the greeny gold. Siam, now known as Thailand, is a country ravaged by natural disasters, and now in even deeper turmoil with much political and social unrest in its capital, Bangkok... these landscape images seem to make for nicer stories... I try to imagine what it must be like to experience such a deeply sculpted landscape - it is so flat here...
Thailand, rice fields...I have also put in a large blue-green abstract painting to convey a cool, minimalist, all-green ambience to my slimline wall exhibit in Blackthorpe Barns... the SOS art exhibition is open daily 11am-5pm, until 24 May 2010.....I have been continuing with the quick observational studies in my sketchbooks... am wondering if I should pursue my virtual travels through sketchbook studies too?...