Alain du Pontavice | A Journey, Here and Beyond
An interview with Alain du Pontavice ahead of his exhibition in London 19 June-1 July 2018
An interview with Alain du Pontavice ahead of his exhibition in London 19 June-1 July 2018
KALEIDOSCOPE: Colour and Sequence in 1960s British Art looks at the radical changes that took place in British abstract art during the 1960s, with the use of industrial materials and vivid colour. It focuses especially on the growing cross-fertilization between […]
Fig. 1 Gillian Lock-Bowen, Pavilion, 2017 The Barcelona Pavilion was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) as the German National Pavilion for the Barcelona International Exhibition, 1929. An analysis of this building reflects the aims I have pursued […]
Exploring colour, form and painting techniques in figurative and abstract art.
Offering No10 of 50 Collages Before Christmas Didn’t We Believe We Were Something? is the piece mentioned in the last post about which I was undecided how to proceed. I decided to go with the easy it wanted to go […]
This is my latest painting, entitled ‘Love’ in my series of Spiritual Art for the Twenty First Century, its in acrylics on a chunky canvas. I believe love features in many religions. I first did a watercolour sketch, the pink […]
I finally finished a painting on ‘Paradise’ that I had been working on for ages. It wouldn’t be paradise if one doesn’t like pink, obviously! I suppose they are evangelistic works, trying to engage people with spiritual issues, in answer […]
I recently finished an abstract painting of ‘Eden’, part of a series trying to look afresh at spiritual ideas, re-interpreting the ideas for the twenty-first century. I haven’t had much feedback about it, it took a long time to do, […]
This is my blog about my current series of spiritual art, seeking a meditative view of the universe, with abstract paintings of people and places.
A Short film on how I created the Sunflowers Commission (in red) for a client. The Sunflowers Commission (in red) is inspired by Van Gogh’s Sunflower Series. The abstract drawing has been produced with ink, bubbles, watercolour, pencil and coloured […]
Want to see how I create my drawings, in the studio? View this short film and watch the progress of abstract drawing, Variable #29.
Examining those things we usually overlook.