Another canvas in the ' virtual travels in colour' series...
Roma 2010, mixed media intaglio collagraph on paper and canvas
Another view...Here is a photograph of a small alley in the Trastevere district of Rome...
A quick perusal of Youtube returned this holiday video; an early morning stroll through Trastevere...
art SOS
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?...
around the world in one hundred abstracts
Continuing with my virtual travels... I have been using colour, google maps and other tools to determine cultural or geographical locations to visit. These works are becoming small mementos to those virtual journeys – travelling around the world in one hundred abstracts...
I have selected these five abstracts as part of my wall exhibit for the SOS exhibition next week... From left to right: kokoda, siam, maroc, cretan and suomi... all are hand-coloured intaglio collagraphs on paper on canvas...Another 'one hundred' has been partly inspired or perhaps just consolidated by the first chapter of the series, A history of the World in One Hundred Objects - fascinating, as it is a radio programme, and so naturally conjures up images that may be quite different to the reality.
maroc, 2010Some images to illustrate - too travel-weary to articulate much in words...
terraced fields and trees - Moroccan landscape...
Marrakech market place - Moroccan souk...
wall and door, MarrakechI would quite like to visit Morocco one day - but musn't grumble, things could be worse, when one door closes...