9.8.12

Things seen - Residence/Pond

Maurice Dennis,  Residence with a pond, 1895 (ca.), oil on paper, 34.0 x 37.4 cm,
National Museum of Western Art - Tokyo.

8.8.12

Comments

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Overlapping/August

Overlapping/August, 2012, oil & collage on linen,  42 x 36 cm

Flanking/Contours

Flanking/Contours/August,  2012, oil & collage on linen & wood,  75 x 63 cm

Today...




9.5.12

25.4.12

Drifting (April)

Drifting (April), 2012, coloured pencil on paper, 32.5 x 25 cm

Opening (night)

Opening (night),  2012, coloured pencil on paper, 32.5 x 25 cm

Dissolution...


Dissolution (tree/debris), oil & collage on linen, 46 x 38 cm



23.4.12

Figure


Figure (November), 2012, oil & collage on wood panel, 142 x 110 cm










































21.4.12

Event


Event (jostling), 2012, oil & collage on linen, 60 x 50 cm






















18.4.12

11.4.12

Things Read - Robert Bresson



"A thing that has failed can, if you change its place, be a thing that has come off"


"Retouching the real with the real"


"Don't think of your film apart from the resources you have made for yourself"


Extracts from Notes sur le Cinématographe by Robert Bresson.

Studio


Things read...



We are never as unhappy as we think, or as happy as we had hoped.

Le Rochefoucauld - Maxims I: 59

Seeds...



It is often the case that the seeds of our greatest achievements are sown (unbeknown to us) during our deepest troubles or personal disasters. One of the sources in art is pain but it is pleasure that keeps one working day in, day out...

Primary images...


Les moyens limités font souvent le charme et la force des peintures primaires. Au contraire l’extension amène les arts de décadence. 
 
The limits set by the medium are frequently the source of fascination and power of the primary images. In contrast, extending them results in decadence. 


George Braque - Pensées et Réflexions sur la peinture