‘Colour is a power which directly influences the soul’ Wassily Kandinsky Helen Field and Viv Owen became acquainted several years ago as they work in adjoining studios at Westgate Studios in Wakefield. ‘Although we enjoy a similar space and conditions […]
Completed the painting this week. Now entitled ‘Interview’. Pleased with the depth effect and the colour palette. Exciting publication and exhibition news to follow very soon – look out for A Splash of Colour!
Getting quite established with the painting this week, with a couple of visits to the studio. Adding more definition and depth: I’ve put together an animation as well over on YouTube Exhibition news: I’m excited to announce that my work will […]
The format of paintings displayed In today’s crit, some of the comments about the work were aimed on the format of the paintings, how they are displayed etc. One of the comments mentioned how the painting’s cropped format makes the […]
It’s the start of a new year and the start of new art work. Currently I am visiting my repository of photographs and cropping these in different ways – fragments of fragments in a sense and seeing how I alternatively […]
Keep Going A couple of studio sessions this week, so some more progress on the painting. Pleased with it so far: Very excited that I’ve a new joint exhibition coming up. It’ll open in March and run for eight weeks. […]
Marwan’s practice is said to be defined as a continual process of internal burrowing. That impulse to locate and translate an inner state of being ties together a neo-expressionist perspective on the healing properties of art and painting. Marwan’s work […]
Suitable for the backwards/forwards looking nature of January, I’ve titled the painting completed last week ‘Hindsight’. Here’s a better quality photo of it (taken with both daylight and studio lighting) Looking forward, I’ve created a new series of images to […]
Completed the latest painting today – the first of the (not so) 2022. I’m hoping for a more productive new year, but given the circumstances I’m not worrying about it too much… Anyway, happy with the outcome of this (so […]
An exhibition of paintings and drawings on show at the Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham. Hampshire. Runs until 25th February!
The artwork that Im working on at the moment is a connection between mediums. The mediums used in it will be projection and a oil painting. Main idea of this project is to literally connect those two. A video will […]
A brief but productive time painting in the studio this week. Realised some of the positioning and proportion was out. Having adjusted, I found it helps define the attitude of the head more accurately: The next exhibition to look out […]
