A stimulating few days spent at Porthmeor Studios in St Ives exploring ‘chance into abstraction’ Out of the comfort zone and free to take a chance approach to composition and use of colour (for me) was liberating to say the […]
Randomness and chance has found its way into the holidays… 1. Slide play After looking out some of the double slide experiments I did with the slide scanner a couple of years ago, I started playing with it again, grabbing […]
Collage- Chance -Mapping -Movement- Scores
Over the last year I have been exploring landscape art and investigating the various forms attributed to Landscape Art throughout the history of art. Throughout the Modernist, the Postmodernist and into the Contemporary Art era, landscape art has changed and […]
Questions, questions, questions. I’ve concluded that controlling chaos is central to what I do. I pour and restrict paint over and over, creating chance then try and make some sense of it. Starting with a plan is usually too restrictive and thought out, […]
This afternoon I am taking ‘Play‘ to Stockholm. It is going to be shown at a one day performance event: The Cat Café. I do not understand how the day will be, however I trust Pontus who is organising it […]
“Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.” ― John Cage During the 1960’s John Cage held a huge part in organising a thought process and movement in which a […]
Adding the ‘grisaille’ layer to my latest drawing with graphite and burnishing tools.
…large box constructions suspended from the ceiling by chain or steel wire. Each box will be have a fine, light wooden frame encased in drawings on frosted draft paper. Laing’s drawings attempt to abstractly identify and describe a found object. […]
