On the brink of 3.3 – final unit of the degree

I began this expedition in 2018 as a way of squaring my art circle which had begun in 1967 and died an ignominious death in 1968 due to massive cultural dislocation. Yorkshire was barely out of the 1950s while Brighton was spaced out and dropped out and jangling through its hippie flower-power summer of luuuurve phase. We had more hair than skirt length, everyone slept on other people’s floors, nothing had a lock on it, and meals seemed to come from nowhere. Not surprisingly, my brain fell over and refused to function so I went back to Yorkshire, straightened myself … Continue reading On the brink of 3.3 – final unit of the degree

Nomad: arrival

Project 10 A nomad (or rogue) is a wandering planet; a cosmic entity that was probably once in orbit around a star somewhere in the universe but was somehow dislodged and nudged out into space where it drifts, lifeless, and without direction until it nudges up against something else, if it ever does. This painting imagines one of these lost planets arriving here. Using the same foreground shapes and palette, I’ve reduced the chaos of the scenes that follow in the series although they were painted and posted earlier. Call it a glitch in the time-space continuum. The media include … Continue reading Nomad: arrival

Project 10 assembly line

The experiential catalogue Let’s call this a sketch pad, a rough diagram, a list, a mental assemblage of elements, an aid to unconscious conjecture about the story I’ve told in this unit and that teeters on the edge of the 3.3 cliffhanger. Fasten your seatbelts. I’ve used digitally altered photography as reference material for paintings Written ‘tombstone’ material (no more than 75 words as per tradition) for finished work I have animated worm dads, scared cats, and novice spiders on their first dangle thread in Procreate and put them in a wild space I have augmented many paintings with digital … Continue reading Project 10 assembly line