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Maia Ramishvili
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Friday, 10 May 2013
Monday, 27 August 2012
Tunnel Visions and Minotaur Dreams
These first two are small oil studies,
exploratory paintings in a new series
called "Tunnel Visions",
hinting at the preciousness of sight,
again exploring boundaries between landscape,
aerial perspective techniques and abstraction.
As James Elkins has described so beautifully in "What Painting Is",
oil paint actively encourages this kind of thing -
a sense of depth and the wallowing in atmospheric effects!
Largely the marks are made with the thumb and fingertips
and occasionally rags.
Painting medium or solvent dissolves and blurs edges and allows for subtle skeins of pigment to criss cross one another and blend.
In the above example, alizarin crimson makes a dramatic note
which could possibly be seen as jarring, but that's the point
really - experimentation.
Below, sap green, white and raw umber are applied more
loosely, but with a similar end in view; that of suggesting a heavily
circumscribed glimpse upon some new realm.
Minotaur Dreams...
Above are two from the "Minotaur Dreams" series,
where similar techniques are used with warm raw burnt and red umber,
deep orange oxides, indian yellow and smoky transparent blacks.
Solvent is sprayed on gently to make the paint more diffuse
and give detailed drip effects in some areas.
Rags are used to expose paler golden staining from the Indian yellow.
deep orange oxides, indian yellow and smoky transparent blacks.
Solvent is sprayed on gently to make the paint more diffuse
and give detailed drip effects in some areas.
Rags are used to expose paler golden staining from the Indian yellow.
White and naples yellow are opaque additions that immediately create
a fog like area - sometimes this gives a sense of far distance
and a blurring of any hinted-at horizon.
and a blurring of any hinted-at horizon.
Below, a Bull of the Woods, with an initial improvised drawing layer
using piped black acylic from a plastic bottle with nozzle
(the type you get in haircolouring kits).
This dries very fast and it's very satisfying to rub oil paint over
and around these contour lines.
That eye keeps recurring. Slightly unnerving...
using piped black acylic from a plastic bottle with nozzle
(the type you get in haircolouring kits).
This dries very fast and it's very satisfying to rub oil paint over
and around these contour lines.
That eye keeps recurring. Slightly unnerving...
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.
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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
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
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.
Wednesday, 29 June 2011
Monday, 27 June 2011
Breton Ballad, Machiavellian
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Breton Ballad oil on canvas, 20 x 16 |
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Machiavellian oil on canvas, 20 x 16 |
Thursday, 2 June 2011
Friday, 20 May 2011
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Flowers of the Wind
Flowers of the Wind
oil on canvas panel, 15 x 11 inches approx.
We've had some breezy days over here lately
and this made me aware of the strength of flowers as well as their delicacy,
how they ride along in this boisterous game.
etsy link
Wednesday, 4 May 2011
Laughing Song
oil on canvas board, 16 x 13 "
"When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;
When the meadows laugh with lively green,
And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene;
When Mary and Susan and Emily
With their sweet round mouths sing 'Ha ha he!'
When the painted birds laugh in the shade,
Where our table with cherries and nuts is spread:
Come live, and be merry, and join with me,
To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!' "
-William Blake, 'Laughing Song', from 'Songs of Innocence'
A number of interesting musical settings to Blake poems, by Jeff Gillett, are here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/JandEGillett#p/u/4/M9pvcWA8fYA
etsy link
Thursday, 21 April 2011
King of the Wood (Beer and Butterflies)
10 by 8 inches, oil on canvas board. 20th April 2011
etsy link
The garden is all a-flutter with orange-tipped and yellow butterflies lately!
Thursday, 14 April 2011
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Black, White and Mixed Metals
Isabel Knew a Spell
The Red King in his Labyrinth
Two new small paintings on canvas board. I love the matte black of blackboard paint
as a ground! I also love red oil stick, as it has a density and archaic sort of feel that encourages boldness.
The metallic lines are made with contour paste or relief markers used for glass painting.
These come in tubes with narrow nozzle tips making them irresistible as drawing implements!
etsy link
etsy link
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