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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Textures

Just catching up on some of my favourite artist's blogs (Sophie Munns & Kathryn Clark)  and was really taken with the beautiful painterly quality of these two works that were brought to my attention.

white rag quilt by Barbara Wisnoski

This beautiful pieced quilt by Barbara Wisnoski is made up of hundreds of tiny fragments sewn together in a method she describes as "Happily freed from precision, this is cutting and sewing as mantra, as pure, riotous activity." This idea is incredibly comforting, to be freed from precision, from the fear that everything must be precise to be of value, to put aside doubt and just be present in the doing. Barbara's work has also really validated my inability to throw away even the tiniest piece of fabric.
07-D122 by Chun Kwang Young
The other artist I came across was a Korean artist Chun Kwang Young who wraps tiny blocks of foam in mulberry paper and creates these incredibly intricate works that resemble by their micro geometry a kind of 3D matrix over a landscape. I find a lot of similarity in their works and their methodology. I love the way they have built up of layers in an informal grid to create such a beautifully ornate yet, from a distance, visually simple aerial landscape.

Friday, 4 March 2011

Master

I just wanted to share these three paintings that my two year old did today.

I know I am incredibly biased by I find them so remarkable and it was just so enchanting watching him do them.

The careful selection of colours, their placement on the paper and the wonderfully free brush strokes seemed so deliberate and considered yet so blissfully uncontrived. I found myself trying to copy his method but failed to unleash my inner child.

But it was really freeing and something I think I'll keep practising, while I have the company of such a teacher.

These are Merlin's paintings...as he pointed out whilst painting them, the top one features a Christmas tree on the left and a squirrel eating at the top of the picture. The middle painting didn't have any description but the bottom one depicts a yellow sun and a rainbow.
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