Painting

Happy Birthday To Me

January 22, 2011

It was my 29th birthday yesterday. I’ve never been a ‘bucket list’ kind of guy but somehow the prospect of being one year off thirty made me acutely aware of all the things I haven’t done. The most random things too, like “I’ve never drank sake.”

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Art Practice: Meditation Versus Action

August 2, 2010

Where do ideas and art come from anyway? It’s all well and good to talk about ‘artistic process’ in an abstract fashion but it really is all about doing something – anything – and then doing something else. Progress in process is all in the doing.

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Painting Rage

July 6, 2010
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Sometimes I paint. Sometimes I just take my frustrations out on a canvas. This is certainly part of the latter.

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Painting: Abstract (Tetris)

May 20, 2010
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I joke that this is my ‘tetris’ painting, but really I was just playing with shapes, grids, colours and washes.

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A Creative Catalyst

May 20, 2010

Strangely it wasn’t this scenic imagining that got me started so much as when it became apparent that fantastical bubble had burst around me.

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Painting: Self-Portrait (Eyes Closed)

May 10, 2010
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Feeling rather disillusioned today. This painting caper isn’t working out as I might’ve imagined – even with all the advice that it’s okay to suck and that realisation I’ll be stuck in ‘the gap’ for a really really long time. Wondering increasingly if my time might not be better spent in some other way.

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Painting: Self-Portrait (Anguish)

May 3, 2010
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Even though this image is quite crude I really feel like it embodies a great emotional truth. This is now how I ‘picture’ personal anguish. When I look at this image I am filled with a sense of recognition. I know what that is in a split second, I know what that feels like.

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Painting: Blake

April 26, 2010
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This is a painting of Blake. Although this isn’t a great likeness and a number of liabilities were taken, I like the bright colours and the combination of colours. I like the different colours in the skin tones.

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