This week has been about finishing off work and getting ready for exhibiting, its all the tedious jobs like edges and backs, titles and labels et al.Oh! I nearly forgot, I did have a bit of a strop and took the hammer to a piece of work that wasnt working, yes a real hammer and a real piece, it was very satisfying.It is important however that creative work of some kind continues,this is when I tend to try stuff out, like materials, techniques, just playing around,fun time.
When people visit your studio, and make comments such as “Oh, it must be so nice to be an artist”,I just wish that they could inhabit my shoes, on a week such as this one has been!I have succumbed to the art of procrastination,faced the terrors of the “blank sheet”, had the eureka! moment only to discover that the breakthrough was merely complete rubbish. Welcome one and all, to my world!! In mitigation, a couple of coffees with my friend and colleague, has now banished those blues and “Pollyanna!” is now back in residence, and I live to fight another day,……maybe?
All the time I have been working on “earth series” panels, I have been constructing a collection of spheres, which I am calling “creation spheres”, these objects have just evolved and have been created whilst waiting for paint to dry, or any other process that required a waiting time. I love them, and so am dedicating time to create a setting for them.
“Trashed” Not a title for new work, no, but it is what has happened to my last panel.I have been working on this panel on and off, since March, and I should have been warned, as the damn thing has caused much angst. As it happens this piece was to be the last wall piece in this particular body of work, but now its not going to happen, I will stick with the work already done. It is time now to move my work off the wall so to speak, and progress into the third dimension, and working with other media. I already have 3d pieces to go alongside the panels, this will now be an extension, although still staying with original concept.The music that is being composed to acompany this work is progressing well, and should be ready for exhibition by November.The music that is being composed to acompany this work is progressing well, and should be ready for exhibition by November.
