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

Close

First of all i am going to apologise for the awfull

photographic quality of these images, i have no money for a decent camera, so nasty, grainy, grey-ish photos shall have to do, untill i stumble across a Leprechaun (the hunt has begun) or get adopted by a million heir and then can afford a good camera. but bad quality pictures are better than no pictures right?

Well here they are anyway!!

This is where i have lived since the age of about 2 or 3 and the opening sampling of Lost by Neurosis did get me thinking, most of my powerfull childhood memories are based in this part of the village i grew up in, well i supose im still growing up but do we ever stop growing and evolving to an extent? Well thats besides the point i guess.

Here are some of my paintings and drawings of the place :)

Close - I

       Oil Pastel on Paper

            Close - II
                      Acrylic on Paper

Close - V
        Acrylic, Ink and
Oil Pastel on Canvas

 

             Close - VI

                    Acrylic, Emulsion and Masonry
               Paint on Canvas

More Music: Neurosis, The James Cleaver Quintet

The music some bands/artists create is beyond inspiring and can have dramatic effects upon my work, changing the mood, rythms, textures and colours.

so heres something incredably brilliant:

Neurosis - Lost

"Are you lost?"
"Yes."
"Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."
"Are you lost?"

The James Cleaver Quintet  

I'd also like to preach to anyone and everyone about these guys, The James Cleaver Quintet with their absalutly crazy blend of enchantingly chatchy, bouncing mellodies, with a funk edge, spinning into sudden erratic, crazed punk madness! theyre fabulous live and great people, truely deserving of much, especialy a trial on your ears!

The James Cleaver Quintet - Album Teaser

The James Cleaver Quintet - Chicken Shit For The Soul