Ringstead

Acrylic on acid free paper

30x16.7cm

I went to a coastal area of Dorset called Ringstead a while ago, took thousands of photos and went through them the other week. This painting is what became of them.

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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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"So I'm out here again, sparks hid behind my teeth, i wont say a word for fear of fire spreading through."

Chalk, Cahrcoal and Conte on Mounting Board

Chalk, Charcoal, Acrylic, Emulsion and Conte on Mounting Board

Acrylic on Paper

Chalk, Charcoal and Acrylic on Paper

Acrylic, Emulsion, Chalk, Charcoal and Pencil on Paper

Acrylic, Conte, Chalk and Charcoal on Paper

Acrylic, Emulsion, Water Colour and Gouache on Mounting Board

Acrylic, Chalk and Charcoal on Mounting Board

All of these except the 2nd and 5th pictures were done on tuseday, when i filled a backpack full of a range of materials, took a nice long walk around the hills and had a great time painting and drawing what i saw. The horse fly arent quite so fun but they gave up trying to bite me after a while haha!

The images above are all going towards my final major project for college (im liking the sound of the final part!) but having a small amount of time to create the most amazing work youve done through out your entire education to date with no guide line, not even a breif, is quite tricky... Even though its still early days as far as this project is concerned, i know the time will fly by and before i know it, i'll need final pieces to mount and be ready for the final show...

The title of this post is a quote from David De La Hoz by The Chariot which i have had stuck in my head ALL week... Glad its an amazing song hahaha :)

Thanks for being on my blog, looking at my work and reading my words! :)

The Land Harbour

                                          

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Ive been etching with with aquatint an all! :)

Its a very enjoyable process which... i have... enjoyed!

Ive found that a huge variety of marks can be made when using both the hardground etching and aquatint, i also like that each colour print is ever so slightly different, which gives a unique quality to each print of the same thing. Ive also invested in a fairly cheep, half decent camera that a friend was selling, so thats why these pictures aren't quite as grainy or grimey as the usual ones :D (the ones that werent previously were from borrowed cameras)

When i leave college in july im going to miss the print facilities, but im mooving out so hey, its going to be good!! However... money is needed to survive off until i get a proper job, so im going to be cheeky and say, anyone wanna buy a print? name a price? not looking for alot... 100% of all money goes towards a starving artist! DONATE NOW AND GET A FREE PRINT!! ;)

But seriously... c'mon, please?

Also, Download Festival looks good this year (Cancer Bats, Refused, The James Cleaver Quintet and many many more bands are playing)

Not feeling charitable? dont blame you... Thanks for reading and looking with your eyes :)

A Home Land

These are drawings in response to the land of which land i have lived upon all my life.

No matter what people think, or how much people pay and protest, this earth shall never be owned by any man, meerly the etherial right to work it.



Charcoal and tainted chalk.

A Work In Progress - Feilds

I'm a rural chap, so im surrounded by feilds, panoramic views , vast valleys and a LOT of mud... so yeh, heres a couple of ideas im working on. I'll put the evoloutions up soon enough.

These are in charcoal and tainted chalk.

Any Help?

Hey, it would be a huge help if anyone could tell me who it was that said this:

"Theres no such thing as art, only artists"

I keep quoting them.... i just cant remember who im quoting..... maybe i should refrain from quoting them.....

This is slightly irrelevalt to the writting above, but im really feeling inspired by Peter Lanyon's work at the moment...

Genoration



Porthleven