Oooo, better shot of the work!

Ok this is a closer shot of my paintings, really like the way they appeared on the wall (once again photo credits must go to Rachale Lee)

Exhibition photo

Well, the work finally hit the walls at the Bad Exposed Exhibition. These are my little offerings. (Photo - big thanks to Rachael Lee!) The gallery is a great venue and amazingly fit all the work. Opening night was huge - could there ever be too many people?!

will post individual images of the rest of the work next.

Tick, Tick... time is of the essence

Ok, work has to be in tomorrow and I am still putting final details in. Really I just never know when to stop. How many glazes have I put on??? who knows, but there is always room for just one mote. Just photographed this one and it is finished (I think). Light is painful and I am hoping to take better photos in the gallery. jewel box - oil on cotton canvas - 30cm x 30cm - 2010

Bad light this morning, but took photo anyway

This is anothoer one of my submissions. The light today wasnt the best and it really hasn't show the luminosity of this piece. There are so many layers on this one - it's like it's never finished but maybe now that I say it is, it will be.

fish scales - 30cm x 30cm - oil on cotton canvas - 2010

Submissions for the show

I have decided to submit 8 small pieces for the interior of the exhibition. I am not sure whether all will be hung but I shall endeavour to document them here and see how it all goes - space permitting. horse skull - oil on cotton canvas - 30cm x 30cm - 2010

Window piece for Bad Exposed Exhibition

Have decided (finally) on which piece I will put into the window Percolator Gallery. I did this work last year and it is a jumping off point for a series of large works that are basically dialogues about specific emotions. I will go into this in more detail at a later date, but each emotion became a "phrase" - for want of a better word. "I said it was for you, but I suspect it was for myself" - 30cm x 30cm - oil on Belgium linen - 2009

Artist Statement- time to review myself

Ok needed to review my artist statement for the BAD Exhibition comming up. Oh the pain of reviewing and thinking! I think it is because I normally just do what I do, and "thinking" about the how and why don"t much play into it. Sure, I think, and sometimes way too much but its usually about the individual work, not the whole. So, here is what I have come up with :

Translucency

SPACES crevices

These are paintings of what can't necessarily be seen - the spaces inbetween. Those slippery, etheral crevices that could best be described as "Gaps in the known".

That "just out of sight, just around the corner, just behind, on the tip of your tongue" feeling.

The subject matter is simply the vehicle, the tool or the door.

Veiling repeatedly with thin layers of colour, covering up to allow one to see. Building up the surface slowiy and gradually. I paint what is, to evoke what isn't, teethering on the precipice of the sublime.

It's about those things that are hard to catch...

and even harder to hold onto.