Painting as a Form of Cultivation

J. Waring Rago  Artist’s Documentation Concerning Painting as a Form of Cultivation about a Particular Set of Original Works on Prepared Paper 21/12/2023 I approach painting as a form of cultivation, and these recent works on paper exemplify this. I prime only a central area (variable in size and shape) of the paper to delineate […]

Poem a Day

As a start to the day, I love to receive these poems, courtesy of the Poetry Foundation, and this one, along with so many others I have received, is beautiful: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/157534/christos This led me to prompt the ever-so-popular AI bot (see below dotted line at the end of this post) which always gives me a […]

A Point of Reference – Emily Dickinson

Also a botanist! – I still have my herbarium and must not forget to show some visuals of it on this blog. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/emily-dickinson

Song (Breathe)

Song (Breathe), a small painting (oil on aluminium 25 x 25 cm) is concluded: Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes, I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it, The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it. The atmosphere is not a perfume, […]

A Sequence of Seeking Out

Of circadian rhythm: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/vincent-van-gogh-a-wheatfield-with-cypresses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_Field_with_Cypresses https://iwp.uiowa.edu/whitmanweb/en/writings/song-of-myself/section-21 https://whitmanarchive.org/archive1/classroom/student_projects/brian/pagetwo.html https://whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1871/poems/15 https://www.vincentvangogh.org/starry-night.jsp (the above reference contains no mention of the poetic Whitman connection!)

Graduate Art Prize – voting by 31st October

Delighted to be shortlisted for The #GraduateArtPrize 2019! Two of my recent paintings will be featured amongst the 26 works chosen by @ARTIQgram and Herbert Smith Freehills from BA and MA graduates across the UK. Would love your votes! Vote here for Janet Waring Rago paintings >>> https://www.graduateartprize.com/vote and please share!

Announcement and Invitation to the Summer Show

This post is to announce the MA Fine Art Digital Summer Show 11th-18th July. This is also an invitation to visit the show whether you are based in London or just happen to be there at the time. Please do come and make yourself known to me – I plan to be there throughout. This […]