Private viewing at The Gloss Gallery

For those of you who may be in the Exeter region next Thursday do feel free to attend the private viewing of the summer art show at the Gloss Gallery.

I shall be exhibiting three pieces and from what I have seen already there will be some excellent work on show from a number of artists and it will undoubtedly be a great evening for those who can attend.

Please see the invite images for details

Though not included in the show I am pleased to present a new relief 'Topsham Blues Relief III' which is from the series created for selection for the show.

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Gloss Gallery Exeter

I have been asked to exhibit three pieces at www.glossgallery.co.uk in Exeter for a 6 week show which starts in a couple of weeks.

For one piece I have finally approached my pile of found wood which has been collecting for a year to create a new nautical/maritime assemblage 'Beer Beach Rhythms'.

I look forward to posting more images of work of mine and other artists once the show commences.

A twist of Sir Terry Frost!

I am currently working on a new commission for a Client who loves the work of Sir Terry Frost. There are two complimentary pieces one of which is featured with images on my website on the page 'work in progress' as I try to complete it.

When I first started I emulated Sir Terry's work and have not attempted the style for sometime. Starting these has reminded me how much fun they are to create and how enjoyable it is trying to arrive a colour combinations that work.

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A Devon View

This abstract landscape is based on sketches I did whilst on holiday in Devon of the countryside around Bicton Park.

I am experimenting with a style which I first used some three years ago which is now influenced by the work of George Dannatt.

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David Hockney and the Polaroid

Some 30 years ago David Hockney experimented with his Polaroid camera creating a photographic art form which at the time was revolutionary and on the whole ignored by Photo artists of the time though emulated since.

The instant image nature of the Polaroid allowed him to bypass the traditional and less available developing processes and to work at a speed akin to painting and thereby inject a high level of creativity into the process.

As Hockney says himself “In 1981 I started to play with the Polaroid camera and began making collages. Within a week, very quickly. I made them quite complex. This intrigued me and I became obsessed with it. I made about 150 collages with Polaroids….This very strongly kindled my interest in Cubism and in Picasso’s idea, so that in a sense it was photography that got me into thinking again about Cubist ways of seeing’

I remember seeing an exhibition of this work when I was about twenty years old and quite frankly my attempts to emulate the process was thwarted by cost and the painful slowness of developing processes of the time.

Thereafter I simply forgot about it until in recent times Hockney has engaged with new technologies and similar multi point photography which featured in his recent Royal Academy exhibition.

To me it proves that the camera can emulate the techniques of the traditional artist and I wonder if the advent of high quality easy to use and process camera technology has rendered representational art using traditional media obsolete.

If the main commercial market for art is in reproduction prints does it matter what the original source is?

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Coastal Relief IV

Wishing you all a wonderful Bank Holiday and Happy Jubilee day.

Here is the last in the series of my Coastal Reliefs - started last November and finally finished this week!

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Exmouth Relief V

As we all enjoy the long awaited start to summer, I am happy to present a new relief

'Exmouth Relief V'

This is the last in a series I started at the end of last year and was prompted by a wonderful weeks holiday in Budleigh Salterton recently. Please enjoy.

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Portland Stone Relief

It has been a while since I listed a relief - on the eve of taking a weeks holiday in Devon during what appears to be the monsoon season, I present a new piece 'Portland Stone Relief'.

I look forward to Devon providing me with inspiration for new pieces though I doubt it will provide me with a suntan!

The storm continues!

I am happy to present the second of my two Portland storm paintings.This is a smaller piece which is from a sketch created on the same visit from which my previous piece 'Portland Storm' was taken which is now on its way to a customer in Germany.

Inlet Storm

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Inlet I

Inspired by the same stormy day at Portland Bill, in Inlet I I have used heavy scoring of the texture medium before applying the paint - please enjoy.

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Portland Storm

Unlike every other birthday when usually the weather is sunny this year we went to Portland Bill where the weather was just a little changeable! However it did present me with some inspiration for a new piece - Portland Storm. 

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Our own personal Caro - in memory of Sir Anthony Caro

Along a lovely winding country road that leads to Studland Bay in Dorset there is what Gael and I refer to as 'Our own personal Caro'. It sits at the side of the road where a lovely farm is located and its material - colour and shape is in direct contrast to its surroundings. It does however remind us of the work of Sir Anthony Caro who is probably the leading living British Sculptor and is our favourite working Sculptor.

We do not mock him but in some way what we see every time we go to the beach puts into context a lot of his work and demonstrates how opposing material and man made form can work in harmony with natural surroundings. In the end it is just a snow plough attachment but to us it will always be 'Our own personal Caro'

Sir Anthony Caro

Anthony Caro was born in 1924 in New Malden, Surrey. He could be the most influential living British sculptor and has played a pivotal role in the development of twentieth-century sculpture.

After studying sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools in London, he worked as assistant to Henry Moore.

He often works in steel, but also in a diverse range of other materials, including bronze, silver, lead, wood and paper.

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