This painting began with a figurative point of reference but follows the same pictopoietic pathway of previous paintings. Pictopiesis is not only applicable to non-objective painting. The first passage of paint is always a defining moment, it is the point of origin of the work, and always has its echo in the eventual outcome. This is the […]
Header image: Omphalos – finding new visual form for Nicholas Gulig’s poem ( links are shown in bold) Thinking about what Whitman means when he writes at the end of section 2 of Song of Myself, …you shall possess the origin of all poems…, I see we already possess it, that origin, it is still there, hidden in […]
Written in the top corner of Gauguin’s famous painting is a question which is as pertinent to today as it ever was. His question is rhetorical, is a question to self; the stuff which my own painting is built on. As I have gone along with this blog I see that my thoughts are all reflective, […]
The second of Paul Coldwell’s lectures, at the very beginning reminds me to talk again about gesture, which has to do with the body and is closely associated with painting and its directness. Vitruvian Man – the proportions of the human body according to Leonardo da Vinci I have already written about the circular gesture, […]
The painting, begun on 11th October, has been taken to a point where I am thinking of it as being finished. I have to look at it, reflect over a period of time to see if it gains strength in itself, or falls short and if so, work out in what way it seems […]
Sampled from my own library to evidence the inspiration of science over decades – into the present with A Universe from Nothing. See below Out of the Huge First Nothing – most recent painting in progress, nearing completion: Historical context This is many-layered as I am old enough to be able to look back on […]
unedited, unpunctuated stream of thought/free verse concerning the painting and its making: (image below is detail of top right-hand area of the painting in the header of this post, in its present state) chalazae cultivating to somehow suspend and span the unbounded whole this invisible somehow most real by its corporeality paint is corporeal its body […]
Lines on lines by J.Waring Rago: edited, unpunctuated, contd: Lines are points which have grown Lines suggest architecture Parallel lines suggest strong structure Lines represent edges Lines misrepresent edges A line denotes the horizon The horizon is not a line There is no such thing as the horizon line A single line makes a […]
Book/Anthology/Unbroken thread of consciousness/importance of going to original source of thought, not an interpretation – Constable quote on back cover: ‘that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information on painting’ Formative – read many times over in Florence as introduction to Art/painters/painting. Book/Anthology of Van Gogh’s powerful, deeply honest, poetic writing […]
It has taken several days to structure the latest passage of paint, as shown below. The header image is the whole work as it is today. The limit of its fineness is reached when the oil paint becomes sticky due to its oxidation. I have never counted as I go – that would be too arduous […]