West Bay harbour: low tide on a grey, winter day
I have been busy today visiting some of the artists at St Michael’s Studios who have opened up for the weekend and then going to one of our out apiaries to check on some of our bees. So just incase I run out of time what with #Letter365 and stuff I need to do for Dorset Art Weeks, I thought I would put this image up. It has been haunting me for a while, begging me to do something with it every time i stumble across it.
Keep the Car Running (detail) Ink on Somerset paper 381mm x 559mm
If you have followed my #Collage365 project or seen any of my “Personal Reflections” photos, you will have seen that I have a bit of a thing about dots and circles. Well today they turned up in one of my abstract drawings.
I will aim to get some of my photos up on this site soon but here is one to give you the idea:
Pesrsonal Reflection on Birmingham’s new library
A Small Homage to Max Ernst (detail) Ink on Somerset paper 381mm x 559mm
I set this site up before Bridport Open Studios last year and got overtaken by all the things I had to do in preparation and have never really got back to it. I have used the excuses of being busy with my #Collage365 project and now my #Letter365 series; and the fact that I wanted to decide on an appropriate design and format for the site; and my problems with making good photographic reproductions of, in paticular, my larger pieces on paper, for not doing it, but now with Dorset Art Weeks rapidly appoaching, it is important that I start to populate it with images. An easy way to ensure at least something get up here is to post the image I am putting up on Twitter each day under the hashtag #arteachday. At least it will begin to demonstrate what my work is about even if i don’t manage to get good reproductions produced or sort out the design for the site in the short term.
Today’s image is from an abstract fine pen drawing I completed today of half-imperial size. The ring is a reference to the solar/lunar disc that appears in a number of Ernst’s works and is a reminder to me to revisit him, especially since my foray into collage through #Collage365 was so fruitful.
The View From Bridport published this piece I wrote about our Open Studios exhibition:
Cutting from the View From Bridport 21 August 2013
Been busy today picking up my pieces from the framers – they look pretty stunning even if I say so myself! – and arranging printing and things for the show. Quite a bit won’t get done I expect but it will still be a pretty good show.
This evening was the launch party. It was good to meet up with some of the other artists and give each other a little encouragement.
I have been busy organising the exhibition and have not left enough time to set up my new website. I had hoped to log all the preparations and events leading up to the launch but we do what we can do. I will be exhibiting with my son, Tom, and daughter, Hannah, at the Chapel in the Garden in Bridport as part of Bridport Open Studios. My neighbour Marian Young and Beaminster artist Hazel Grimsey will be joining us.
Tomorrow I will be picking up the rest of my work from the framers, so at least I will have something to put on the walls, but I don’t know if I will be able to mount and wrap any other stuff. Hopefully I will be able to get it all up on Thursday leaving Friday free to do the signage at the Chapel.