At studio today collating the experimental images of my horizon works to establish a way forward towards creating large scale works, Technician, Glen helped by making up the frame canvas , I have now primed it with 2 coats of gesso.The scale is 5ft x 3ft.
As can be seen by comparing size and scale of the works this will give me time to consider which images may work best as a larger scale works.
The works I am comparing here range from A5 sketches to A1 and A2 size works.
Spoke to Jane today about taking time to reflect back over my blog.
To consolidate/reflect, where has the journey for the project come from? how is it progressing? Where is it heading? Who/what has inspired and influenced its development.
Looking back to the begining.
The realisation within a short period of time that my original project concerning aspects of war was no longer tenable due to the personal effects of the content. I had to make quick decisions- time is precious. This was a difficult time, I hadn’t expected to run aground mid stream – had to some how find a way forward, yet within a couple of weeks and finding qoutes such as “when you come to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on!” by F. Roosevelt plus other words of encouragement, I started to find my new bearings, determined to move on.
The new project is based on aspects of nature concerning the near shoreline and distant horizon something that reasonates with me from cherished memories of my childhood by the Irish Sea. It has become a journey of reconnecting with nature, finding solace, sanctuary, restoration, healing. Something discussed by Philosopher, writer and speaker Alain de Botton talks about concerning art as therapy.
Informed by Researching.
Discovering how disconnected Western and the industrialised world is from nature- we spend over 90% of our time indoors, and don’t use 54 of our natural senses. Disconnected from nature – we see nature as different from humananity rather than ourselves as part of nature.
http://www.ecopsych.com/nsd.html
Inspiration found in artists such as Frans Krajcberg – his connection with nature through the Rainforest and his response to protect against deforestation through his sculptural installation art.
Claude Monets Waterlillies that were an inspiration to heal the French nation after WW1.
Exploration of multi-visual art disciplines in order to communicate ideas
Painting -Horizons
Peter Doig’s work has become an influence whilst developing paintings of seascape/ horizons concerning colour, aura, and layering within works and the way the viewer is invited to escape into the scene.
Painting and print – Micro-detail
Georgia O’keeffe’s detailed work to maginify flowers in order to draw the viewers attention to nature I have been influenced and inspired by, through observing the near shoreline,using sketchbook drawings and followed up through printmaking, using linocut and collograph materials.
Installations
Moving on to consider the hand installations as an expression of my response to found objects along the shoreline, along with recent ideas to develop a T.V. installation piece- the viewers relating to nature via tv.a response to Jean Baudrillard’s observations on simularcra…
“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the “real” country, all of “real” America that is Disneyland (a bit like prisons are there to hide that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, that is carceral). Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation
Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation.
http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/850798-simulacres-et-simulation
To Guy Debourds observational writings and Artist Nam June Piaks T.V. Garden Installations. I want to explore the idea of the viewers passivity created by TV which was discussed in my dissertation this seems relevant as the viewer relates to nature through media technology, rather than active reality.
Back to nature..Quote.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, to mingle with the Universe, and feel what I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.
LORD BYRON, Childe Harold
Read more at http://www.notable-quotes.com/n/nature_quotes.html#C14C3yeURf08Rzl0.99
How can painting a horizontal line created by the sky and sea be SO difficult!! I have spent the best part of today working and reworking two paintings on canvas, with the intention of creating works that evoke a sense of the sublime and awe. It has proved to be more challenging than I could have imagined..I suppose what I am trying to acheive… and the actual efforts and realities of the results have driven me back to the drawing board.
I have to re-consider, Colour, form ratio, and what effects am I hoping to gain from this work.
Calm
tranquility
serenitny
lumioncity
sublime…
Must revisit how other artists responded with colour…
Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.
Marc Chagall.
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
Claude Monet.
I may need to consider working on smaller canvas, keep developing techniques and consider what I am attempting to acheive.. note..re-look at Doig, Rothko, O’Keeffe’s techniques.
Continued to exploration of ideas toward work for my project-see images
Shoreline
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. John Burroughs
I have started work on a collagraph, not sure if it will be successful at this stage, also working on linocut and monoprint images in my sketch books with the intention of emphasising cause and effects in nature created by the sea along the shoreline…these ideas are my attempt to visually articulate my observation of the shore’s natural elements, such as pebbles, seaweed,and driftwood, enabling the viewer a chance to respond and engage in someway toward a new seeing of the sea’s effects on natural elements… which often easily pass us by in the rush of everyday life. Nature is a source of inspiration, sanctuary, and regeneration,when we take time to contemplate.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.Aristotle
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090122153749AAoHzfc
One has to be alone, under the sky,Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all.We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.
Thomas Merton.
http://journeyofhearts.org/healing/nature.html
The last two images on this blog are part of on going ideas I have for an installation of “hand’s” holding found objects from along the shoreline, (this was disscused on a previous blog relating to my response to the shoreline.) See blog 22 /27th feb.
