Technical limitations

Having captured all the images of the paintings in progress, the processing of the hundreds of individual high-resolution image files is even more  laborious; each file has to go through numerous edits including in Lightroom, Photoshop, Da Vinci Resolve (for creating the video). Though it was all done meticulously throughout it is impossible to get […]

Unit 2 Assessment

MAVA Fine Art Digital Unit 2 Year 2 201819 assessment brief (1) Indicative Content: • Exploration of Practice • Exhibition Planning and delivery • Personal and Professional Development Please find below the evidence required for: 1. Participation in the Symposium: Symposium 2 2. Critical Evaluation of your practice and future development (500 words): The MA Summer […]

Unintentional Title

Almost Finished and Just Beginning – Looking at my previous post, unintentionally I have made a working title for an as-yet-untitled work, from a factual truth about its co-existence relative to another painting sitting here in the studio. Perhaps it is finished as it is. New lines of thought are opening out, this is what […]

Six Persimmons

I am always interested in the divergences and convergences of different traditions of thought and philosophy, for example the Western and Eastern. My actual practice arises out of the Western tradition but my philosophical approach seems to also correspond with the notion of Tao – an Eastern concept. There is so much more to find […]

Pictopoiesis – Your Own Meaning (Mind Mirror)

I particularly like making these short pictopoiesis videos because the Spark video format is simple and limited in contrast with the complexity of the painting. The below video, which has a written narrative and a minimal sound track is my submission for the upcoming interim show. Throughout the painting I had practopoiesis in mind, hence its […]

Project Proposal

Final version of Project Proposal: (Click on the link here for an earlier version)  Working Title A Systematic Materialisation of the Painting’s Poetics    Aims To research and develop a photographic time-based form that unfolds and makes visible the poietic/poetic content of a painting as a time-based narrative. To evidence a connection between poetry and […]

Unit 1 Assessment

Project Proposal link Symposium 1 link The blog curation for unit 1 assessment has been invigorating and informative. Keeping a blog journal has enabled me to articulate my reflections in and on my practice and its details. Research not only involves the external world but it also happens within the work itself. Each painting is […]