Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
Monday, 20 May 2013
Painters 20/05/13
Revisiting some of the paintings by Neil Dallas-Brown whose work originally convinced me as a student to pursue painting. The economy of the use of paint, ambiguous handling of the figure and often powerfully symmetrical compositions really spoke to me then and still do.
Today I've also been re-investigating the work of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye - an artist I knew to make fictitious portraits- but hearing her in conversation from her exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery last year and discussing some familiar problems has been fascinating: wanting to paint the figure without capturing the 'essence' of a sitter and for the process to primarily be about addressing the paint and 'translating paint into people' http://www.chisenhale.org.uk/archive/exhibitions/index.php?id=122
Thursday, 4 April 2013
Zizzi Glasgow Princes Square - Final Designs
Workshop of the World
Princes
Square was originally commissioned as a site for retail by Sir James Campbell
and completed in 1841. Campbell, businessman and Provost of Glasgow, had a
passion for architectural design, insisting on the importance of plentiful
natural light. When his eyesight began
to fail him, he drew his designs with white chalk on dark blue paper…
These colours spoke to me of blueprints and plans; of shipbuilding and of architecture and engineering; even pattern cutting – a reference to another of Campbell’s trades- and the drapers business he established in Prince’s Square. It is the visual language of the Workshop of the World.
These colours spoke to me of blueprints and plans; of shipbuilding and of architecture and engineering; even pattern cutting – a reference to another of Campbell’s trades- and the drapers business he established in Prince’s Square. It is the visual language of the Workshop of the World.
I combined imagery of
the Princes Square building
with elements from historical shipbuilding photographs. The grid pattern creates depth, allows for
playful perspective and hints at the distinctive scheme upon which the City is
designed and founded.
Princes Square was
refurbished and appeared in its current form in 1988, represented here by the
literal ‘relaunching’ the iconic Peacock sculpture.
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
15/01/13 Graphite Rubbings and from Woodcuts
These images resulted from some experimental woodcut mark-making made with another artist at our studio complex, David Woods. The different marks (Mountains, checkerboard, cloud/drumlins etc.) were all made in isolation but by taking rubbings in graphite I could combine the disparate elements into 'landscapes'. This way I can imagine what form a future woodblock print might take and how different forms and patterns can be substituted and interchanged.
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