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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Skindred - Weymouth Pavilion

One of the proudest moments of my life was watching some of these videos of last Sunday at one of the concerts I help organise with Hourglass Promotions. I'm very proud to be part of the global music community and to have given 600 odd people the time of their lives at a sold out show, it really makes all the stress and long hours worth it. It breaks my heart to think that next year the council intend to bulldoze the pavilion (which happens to have managed to survive both world wars) so they can build another huge car park RIGHT NEXT TO ANOTHER WHICH IS ALWAYS EMPTY!! Well, always except when we put on concerts like last Sunday...

please back our Save The Pavilion campaign if you can by clicking HERE, it would be much appreciated!

As Skindred may say "stand for something, or you'll fall for anything" lets stand up for the pavilion.

Now, weather or not your into the music, just check out these videos from side of stage to get a glimpse of what its all about!!

here is some of their studio material

Reggae/Metal with Punk influences.... from Wales... Why not? I think its awesome!

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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Untitled Abstraction

Untitled Abstraction 

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Acrylic on thin card

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Music On Mass

This weekend just gone, we at Hourglass Promotions put on 2 major shows in Weymouth with some BIG bands and BIG agents. Both events went really well, good times were had all around, and to see so many people with smiling faces because of what we have done was an incredible feeling. Although close to slave labour, working with Hourglass is awesome (if my maths is correct, I worked about 37 unpaid hours over Friday, Saturday and Sunday...? got to the pavilion at 8am on Friday to set up the venue and didn't get home after packing down until 4am, same again on Sunday, except we got back at about 1am) and our new venue looks really cool, so its all worth it :D

 

I cant believe we managed to have so many great bands play in such a small town in one weekend!! So here are a few of them: 

 

Lower Than Atlantis - Deadliest Catch 

Lower Than Atlantis - Far Q 

Mallory Knox - Oceans

Mallory Knox - Resuscitate, live at Weymouth Pavilion 

Max Raptor - Carolina 

These guys, Max Raptor, were my Favourite band of the weekend, really nice guys too!  

Max Raptor - Patron Saint Of Nothing (live acoustic session) 

Your Demise - Burnt Tongues 

Your Demise - Forget About Me

  

   

   

    

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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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