The updated statement explains how my work has changed during an extended period of focussed attention on drawing and painting.
Zoom in to see the figure behind the seedpods.
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas 76 x 110cm
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas 61x76cm
A collection of new work is on the way. I have been taking some time to generate some new working methods. Here are some studies.
‘Paperdolls for Recalcitrant Girls’ Drypoint 1/10 A2
There is the simple relationship that produces the likeness of an original: not necessarily its faithful copy, but simply what suffices to stand for in for it. And there is the interplay of operations that produces what we call art: or precisely an alteration of resemblance. This alteration can take a myriad of forms. It might be the visibility given to brush strokes that are superfluous when it comes to revealing who is represented by the portrait; an elongation of bodies that expresses their motion at the expense of their proportions; a turn of language that accents the expression of a feeling or renders the perception of an idea more complex; a word or shot in place of the ones that seem bound to follow and so on and so forth.
The Future of the Image, Jacques Rancière
‘Stall’ Drypoint 1/10 2012
New things are on the way, but whilst I’m working…
These ‘flowers’ were designed to move in the breeze in the same manner as the little, white, natural flowers.
'flowers' that I placed on a grave
Jules Cowan 