As seen below, I now have nine paintings ready for the Summer show. Another one is ongoing but I do not plan to include it, just keep working on it. Finishing a painting as far as shows are concerned means having also allowed for it to have dried, so it can be transported more easily […]
Category: show building blocks
About the oil
Writing the script for my 2nd symposium caused me to mention the significance that the oil medium has for me. The image above shows a very special oil source obtained about 30 years ago. It is cold pressed linseed oil as supplied by Zecchi of Florence – Zecchi being the artists’ materials shop right […]
Thinking of the task
I have drafted the script for my 2nd Symposium. and This is a link is to a very recent paper, which has a lot of resonance with me.
Continuous with origin
I have been focused on concluding paintings and now also a number of works that have been suspended over a period of time. I am now able to approach these works and conclude them, showing the maintenance of connection with origin that is at the heart of pictopoiesis. These, as yet unconcluded paintings, each in […]
Thinking around concluding a painting/paintings
The painting and I are bound together by what feels like a kind of covenant bound in with the (picto)poietic act of making, in which we both progress together. For any of it there has to have been an initial impetus which set the work in motion. That was the living me, something which has philosophical significance. […]
Macrocosmic, Microcosmic
Timelapse of the future (video) As if through a window, a single point then line, a universe, and back again – animated sketch of a single line drawing: note to self: The universe inside the black dot/macrocosm, microcosm
Paintings for the Summer Show
Images of 5 of the (7 or 8) paintings (oil on aluminium, each 125 x 123/127 cm) destined for the Summer show, now processed in higher resolution:
Developing and unfolding the elements of pictopoiesis
Source: Line drawing in graphite on paper Part 1: First cycle of return (source, point, line, plane, return to origin)
Point, line, Source, Origin, Development
Black Dot/Point (graphite on paper) by JWR
Random Motion
Following on from the previous post: The drawing in oil on card above was created with the discarded material from a painting: The marks, though randomly made, never-the-less seem to be a self-organising whole. It makes me wonder, is the ultimate state of everything disorder (entropy) or is it actually order arising out of a […]