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Maia Ramishvili
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Tuesday, 21 October 2014
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Friday, 10 January 2014
Monday, 1 April 2013
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Recent work,March - April (Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You; Entanglement)
Oh Whistle and I'll Come To You
Entanglement
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
£1,483 funded; £302 to go!
Very exciting times! We are approaching our target with just three days
remaining on the "We Did This" Crowd Funding site!
£1,483 funded; £302 to go!
This will secure the lease for the Old Lock Up studio for the next six months.
original painting by Rachael Pinks
Online gallery here
Rachael in her studio
Thanks so much to everyone who's contributed,
either directly or by purchasing paintings and prints
from my etsy shop. At least 50%
of any art sales I make up to the deadline on February 4th
will go towards this project.
Many thanks too to all
who've helped to spread the word!
Sunday, 29 January 2012
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
High summer revisited, mid-January
Summer Storm (II)
Here I was revisiting an older painting idea,
but aiming for a slightly different look, darker and more loose with less clearly defined shapes.
I
I don't normally post such large closeups at full size but in this case I think it's necessary as my camera doesn't capture the effect of looking at the complete painting well at all! I suppose that's only to be expected as it only has one lens for a start- like listening to an elaborate stereo track in mono!
Violets and mauves are notoriously elusive, a camera really can never properly replicate the optical blending effects within our visual systems. The experience of standing in front of a painting is so much more of a rich, multisensory experience. I hope one day to be able to have short video clips (in 3d?! hmm...) ranging over the painting, rather than static shots only.
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
New work, mid-January: Iced Summer, Enivrez-Vous, Bright Young Thing (ii)
Iced Summer
view on etsy (opens in new window)
Enivrez-Vous (large detail)
Bright Young Thing (II)
etsy
Friday, 2 December 2011
New silver clay ring
Here's a new ring-in progress, formed by
carving the silver clay at the dry stage.
After firing in the kiln it was dipped in
Liver of Sulphur solution to darken the lower
areas giving greater contrast to the burnished
upper surface.
Part way through the carving process I began to make
smaller scored lines and notches in some areas trying
to echo and amplify the lines and irregularities seen in
the surface of the fingers. I like the idea of pieces that
sit well with the characterful fissures of use and age.
This is one interesting aspect of making it up as you go
along, you allow space for new things to come up.
I was also using the irregular slight dips and hills of the
simple clay shape to determine where and how I was
carving into the clay. The deeper carved areas set up
natural weaknesses and tensions in the clay which can
cause cracking when you fire the piece, and this happened
in one place on the inside surface.
but this can easily be righted by refiring with oil paste
in the gap, which forms a very strong bond fusing with the
surrounding metal.
The look here is influenced by work
made using lost wax casting technique, something I
would love to have experience of and access to, but with
silver clay I enjoy that you often find your own ways around
technical difficulties to make a fine silver object without much
equipment, it can all be done in a very small kitchen.
more silver clay jewellery here
metal clay info
Thursday, 24 November 2011
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Monday, 14 November 2011
Details from work in progress:
This first is a more "alchemy-influenced" painting,
-which feels as though it marks the coming of the dark half of the year,
a possible time for occultation, and finding strength deep inside oneself.
In the fog and murk one might at least stumble upon a new direction.
"Honour thine error as a hidden intention" as the Oblique Strategies card set
has it.
I'm currently exploring Taoist alchemy http://www.goldenelixir.com/jindan.html
and magical calligraphy;
James Elkins has written engagingly on the kinship between painting and alchemy in "What Painting Is".
James Elkins has written engagingly on the kinship between painting and alchemy in "What Painting Is".
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
New painting, "Caw and Clatter"
This is part of a series using gestural large brushstrokes in blackboard paint, with oil colour overlaid with painting knives. It's partly inspired by the sounds made by corvidae and other birds in and around the trees in autumn.
The painting is available via the Tarpey Gallery.
Friday, 7 October 2011
Apple Day Preparations...
Apple Day (I)
oil on canvas, 5th October 2011
First of a new series
celebrating Apple Day, officially October 21st, but will be on Saturday 22nd here in Cromford, much better for families to join in with apple pressing, games and general apple-based mayhem!
This event highlights the need to protect older trees and orchards as both habitats
and
producers of heritage or heirloom apples and encourage the growing
of less widely
known varieties .
The local independent bookshop, Scarthin Books, has supported Apple Day with
its own celebrations including apple pressing outside on the Promenade at Cromford
for some years. This year for the first time they are inviting local artists to display their
work there a la Rive Gauche!
Any sales I make will include a 20% donation to
Common Ground.Any sales I make will include a 20% donation to
A few more relevant links are...
orangepippin
The Orchard Network (UK)
a is for apple, a V & A Museum art page
List of Apple Day events in the UK
...and the painting ison sale here:
etsy link
(now sold)
List of Apple Day events in the UK
...and the painting is
(now sold)
Monday, 19 September 2011
New impasto abstract, "Red Queen In Autumn"
Oil on Canson Figueras sized painting paper, 40 x 36 cm.
... and a couple of details:
These details will lead to further paintings I think, this time.. I need to explore working with broader strokes using larger brushes or ideally larger painting knives.
Loving my new Mameiri Classico Cadmium Red Light.
The title also refers to an Italian "giallo" film, "La Dama Rossa Uccide Sette Volte", English title "The Red Queen Kills Seven Times". It has a brilliant Bruno Nicolai soundtrack which I've been listening to a lot lately. I find a lot of his work autumnal, in an exciting blustery way. Here's a highlight,
Red Queen In Autumn etsy link
Saturday, 17 September 2011
Leafing through a book on Australian art this afternoon I chanced upon a small image of Ian Fairweather's Monsoon.
Wonderful work! I wish I could find more about this artist on the web.
Please let me know if you have other links to images/ info. Thanks!
http://www.couriermail.com.au/entertainment/arts/bribie-island-hermit-ian-fairweather-shunned-fame/story-e6freqkf-1225848379708
http://www.evabreuerartdealer.com.au/artists/ian-fairweather/ian-fairweather-1891-1974
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