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Monday, 9 May 2011
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
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Thursday, 21 April 2011
King of the Wood (Beer and Butterflies)
10 by 8 inches, oil on canvas board. 20th April 2011
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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!
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Thursday, 17 March 2011
Chamber Lullaby, March 16th
New small 8 x 10" on canvas board.
Prepared with blackboard black for a dark flat matte ground.
Then gold relief liner/contour paste (for glass painting) improv. lines,
and finally knife-painted oils.
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Saturday, 12 March 2011
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Mornings with Malakoff and l'Ondée, New paintings, early March
Mornings with Malakoff
oil on canvas board, 16 x 12 inches
One of my all time favourite old roses is Tour de Malakoff.
I love the name too, and the particular flora-drama described of petals of a rich
reddish purple fading to pale papery lilac! These recent works are full of the
sense of anticipation about Spring.
Come on, Spring!!
Come on, Spring!!
l'Ondee
oil on canvas board, 20 x 16
I've been reading up on classic older perfumes, and I love finding out about
I've been reading up on classic older perfumes, and I love finding out about
their histories, meanings and evocative descriptions. Although I should say I have no sense memory of the perfume itself,
at least as far as I know, the poetry of the description is very inspiring. "Apres l'Ondee" (Jacques Guerlain, 1906)
("after the heavy rainshower" doesn't evoke the same poetic mood as the original French, does it? ) inspired the titling of this new painting. I wanted to keep a sense of fragility and ambiguity, as in Nerval, a dreamlike feeling that draws you in rather than defining itself too clearly.
In this aspect, this transitional state between landscape and portrait, the painting owes a debt to and is a conscious tribute to the great contemporary Russian painter
Andrey Aranyshev.
at least as far as I know, the poetry of the description is very inspiring. "Apres l'Ondee" (Jacques Guerlain, 1906)
("after the heavy rainshower" doesn't evoke the same poetic mood as the original French, does it? ) inspired the titling of this new painting. I wanted to keep a sense of fragility and ambiguity, as in Nerval, a dreamlike feeling that draws you in rather than defining itself too clearly.
In this aspect, this transitional state between landscape and portrait, the painting owes a debt to and is a conscious tribute to the great contemporary Russian painter
Andrey Aranyshev.
Monday, 7 February 2011
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