Churning The Earth's Flesh

I know I've neglected my blog for a while, but i promise I'll do my best to keep the art flowing from now on, but I'm a busy guy, sorry.

Here's something i did a while ago (I'll post my latest works once they have dried)

I combined multiple view
points as well as layers of separate places for this piece. A large amount of the spaces i was viewing were in the process of being ploughed.






Churning The Earth's Flesh - Acrylic, Charcoal and Chalk on Wood (MDF)







On a separate note I'd like to try to urge everyone to listen to Godspeed You! Black Emperor, who I'm finding incredibly inspiring at the moment. Stirringly ambient and evocative.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEsdiiYkhT8

Solution

Most of my work over the past few months has been based on spaces, specifically an area which you inhabit, your own space will always, as i have found, affect you drastically. in order to move forwards with life and living it efficiently, changes in these spaces are needed, hence I have moved from one of Dorset's most rural places, to one of its most built up areas. It's very different having spent my whole life around fields of cows etc. for the most part though, its much better, but the stars aren't as bright. 

This is the inspiration for this piece. I have found stepping stones to help me move forwards. 
Solutions.

Conte, Acrylic, Chalk, Charcoal and Pencil on Paper

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Done And Dusted, Upwards And Onwards

Why have such limitations? 

I like that it's almost infinite, 

The sea doesn't do it for me.

Why have a horizon you'll never reach? 

I say goodbye to the sky. 

The forever flowing hills 

Eddy so dynamically, 

As the sections pour through grids, 

Into ever evolving expanses of foliage forms 

Sprouting from the soil, 

An earthy flesh. 

An ultimate display of power and elegance.

A feminine finesse, 

A masculine might. 

Poised

Like a green haired being. 

A giant, if you will.

My minds eye sees it sprint.

Acrylic, chalk and charcoal on canvas

Acrylic, chalk, charcoal and conte on canvas

Acrylic, chalk, charcoal and conte on canvas

Acrylic, chalk, charcoal and conte on board

Acrylic, chalk and charcoal on card

It's been a while since I've posted... well, not that  long, but lots has happened, its been a fast paced month or so. The above pictures are my final pieces for my final major project for college and in part are the results of many late nights (by late nights i mean going to bed in the early hours of the morning) but now college is done and out the way, so i can continue on my own path, doing my own thing!! The final exhibition went well too, my class exhibited with some A level photography students, the privet view was a lot of fun. :)

Ive also entered the real world beyond education by moving out and living with a friend in a town, rather than in the middle of nowhere, which is brilliant! shops within 20 metres instead of 3 miles!! its great :')

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The Tate Britain: Picasso In Britain

On Thursday the 10th my college took us to London again! :D So I went to the Tate Britain for the Picasso exhibition they have on at the moment, although surprised that i was the only member of my class that decided to go there, it was AMAZING! not only did they pretty much cover each phase of Picasso's artistic career but compared his work to some of the major British artists that he had a huge impact on, each of which filled a large room!

The British artists included in the exhibition were Wyndham Lewis, Graham Sutherland, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Ben Nicholson, Duncan Grant and Henry Moore.

They said not to take any photos in the exhibition, but i figured it wouldn't hurt anyone in any way if i took a couple with no flash or anything like that... so i was rather cheeky and as the staff were telling off other people for taking photos, i took the opportunity to take a few haha i had to be quick though, so their not great photos, but seeing as all of the work is all over the Internet anyway, I'm not really sure what the problem was, if i had the flash off. I suppose its a paid exhibition and they want people to buy the book that pretty much summarises the exhibition (which i bought anyway, because it's brilliant). I'm not entirely sure of the copy right/patent laws of art but i think its something along the lines of, if the artist is dead then then you can reproduce (take photos of) the work without permission from the artist (obviously they cant give permission, for reasons i need not explain). Shall i post a few? hmm...

Suppose if i DO get in trouble for this, I'll take them down should they ask me too, seems fair to me, especially due to how terrible these photos are, due to me trying to be ever so discrete...

Duncan Grant

Ben Nicholson

Picasso

Francis Bacon

Picasso

Graham Sutherland

Picasso













I didn't manage to take any photos of Wyndham Lewis' or David Hockney's work.

After exiting the Picasso exhibition, i took a wrong turn while trying to leave Tate Britain and Found a very poorly lit room with one of my favourite paintings in, which made my day so much more spectacular!! It was Porthleven by Peter Lanyon! Genuinely breath taking.

























There were also two other works in the room that caught my eye, I'm unsure of the artist who created the relief in the first of the two pictures bellow, but the second image is Black Mirror by Alan Davie.

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cubism inspired photo montage

although this took no where near as much skill or thaught as a cubist painting, the over all effect and process was interesting. i managed to align all the photots in a way that shows the still life from 360 degrees which is very similer to how it was set up but retains the disjointed chaos.