Initial
I pretty well inadvertently got locked down on my own by a lake in Erdington, with little stuff for entertainment.
Which really doesn’t really bother me when I’m comfortable and can paint.
The images start off in a kind of dour/scared state of mind and slowly tend to calm down, turning into a more experimental form of expression.
It’s been a useful time to reflect & then come out with a self-contained body of work.
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10-05-2020.
Corona on paper
Whilst being isolated I knocked out these (mainly small) paintings.
there are about a hundred, with probably more to come.
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Jamboree
Corona Jamboree
A set of more intensely worked paper paintings.
Mainly April 2020
This was the middle of three stages & the biggest of the Corona albums.
It was a kind of summing up of the first set of albums, although there is a kind of overlap between all three, although there is a kind of overlap between all three ~they aren’t set in concrete!
Mainly, I didn’t think there would be a third set.
Maybe,
I haven’t been as personally productive
as this since
three months on a houseboat
Kashmir 1983.
Maybe,
I’ve done more work
on/in projects
and more successfully since then.
Maybe,
I haven’t managed
to “stay” with the flow
of my thoughts since then.
There wasn’t a show following Kashmir
maybe,
there could be
(a material) show here,
maybe,
there could be two shows
back to back!
and every thing else that I can squeeze into a very tight corner. All the dreams, the positively well meanings
I first painted this three years ago and it hadn’t really gone anywhere then on getting locked in, I came across it again, wandering if I could reboot it. Unfortunately I haven’t got any good paints around and I wanted to completely cover some areas. So I painted on thin bits of paper various random patterns and colours It gave it a new life, but it’s not the first time I’ve done this by far
and every thing else that I can squeeze into a very tight corner. All the dreams, the positively well meanings
Conclusional
This third chapter of this project
was a bit unexpected, but the theme was still fresh.
The first was mainly small
the second was mainly large (in this scheme of things)
& the third is mainly medium.
(the three bears!)
There are about 130 images in all
and they really need archiving!
In real terms, there is a show here.
on Shipping Hill, where my spirit lies. When a man gets tied to the ground- he gives the world it's saddest sound.
on a hillside
on Shipping Hill, where my spirit lies. When a man gets tied to the ground- he gives the world it's saddest sound.
Its not to do with “today”,
Its an investigation into what pushed some people to succeed
TIGHT ROPE & to fame
Unfortunately, some people fell off.
I never felt I had to do this,
but some folks may differ.
20-05-2020 my gobby neighbour started telling his wife how things were in extremely loud and unpleasant tones. at which point I decided that I had done enough gardening for a while
Boys & Girls, it’s time to mate
I showed this to Brian in an uncompleted state ~ see what he thought.
It was a picture that didn’t have a preconceived destination.
Many birds have appeared from doodles recently.
I said it was about the dawn chorus (normally a safe bet)
He said it was about swans on the lake over the road.
At which point I realised that I had been watching them courting recently.
23 third of May
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23 third of May
I met this nutty musical guru in Puri 1981
I showed off a selection of paintings
to him & a bunch of his disciples
& to bunch of us “travellers”
The “class” was going “coo” & “cor”& “I like that”
when the man cut in like a knife with
Paintings have to balance ~
in terms of colour~
If you work on one area of your picture~
that colour needs to appear, maybe in a small way,
in another place on your picture.
In fifteen years,
I had never thought of this,
now its in every picture I make.
I put this in as an irrelevant but pertinent aftermath!
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