Inspired by an astronomy themed art residency and the purchase of a telescope, this exhibition brings together a selection of new work, made over the course of a year.
The artwork explores the interplay between the Earth, Sun and Moon; their materials and processes, surfaces and topography, light and space, cycles and rhythms, time and transience.
Experimenting with various media to investigate this new subject, work includes graphite, charcoal and chalk drawings on wood, drawings on scraperboard, ink and oil paintings, digital photography and solargraphs. Materials used and methods of practice continue a long term interest in juxtaposing serendipity with intent, randomness with precision, the precious with the everyday.
The work often combines tangible, everyday patterns and forms from landscapes on Earth (specifically local places with personal resonance), with more theoretical, abstract, and imagined marks, geometries and depictions.
Agden 6 Month Solargraph Dec20-June21
Sun skies swatches, watercolour on paper
Sun skies swatches, installed at Fronteer Gallery
Sun skies swatches, watercolour on paper
In between Suns 1, Acrylic and oil on board
In between Suns 2, Acrylic and oil on board
Day to Night 1, Oil and acrylic on gesso board SOLD
Day to Night 2, mixed media on board
Lunar Snaps, digital photographic prints
Lunar Snaps, digital photographic prints and Day to Night 1 SOLD
Lunar Snaps, digital photographic prints SOLD
Earth Tides, chalk and Indian ink on board (Not for sale)
Nightfall, mixed media on board, SOLD
Black Sun, Oil on board, framed
Black Sun, Oil on board, framed
Dusk, acrylic and oil on canvas
Dawn, acrylic and oil on canvas
Encroaching Dusk, graphite & charcoal on board
Ink drawings
Forest Light (White Lee Moor) SOLD
Flooded Sun, Ink on gesso board
White Sun, Ink on gesso board
Beech Bank, Agden, Ink on gesso board SOLD
Andromeda 2, Ink on gesso board
Horizon studies
In between Suns 3 SOLD
In between Suns 3 SOLD
In between Suns 3 SOLD
Lockdown Oak, Watercolour & pencil on clayboard
Moss Forest, Watercolour & pencil on clayboard
Lunar Tide 1&2 (Druridge Bay) Ink and pencil on canvas SOLD
Moon Forest (pair), Graphite, paper, ink and gold-leaf on wood
Moon Forest (pair), Graphite, paper, ink and gold-leaf on wood
Nebula, Mixed media on gesso board (pair with Onset of Night)
Onset of Night, Acrylic, ink & pencil on board (pair with Nebula)
Orbit, Acrylic, ink & pencil on board
Earth Tides, Indian ink and chalk on board, and Scraperboard studies SOLD
Scraperboard studies SOLD
Street solargraph, 6 month exposure (Dec 20- June 21)
Sunsky 8.12.20, acrylic ink on raw canvas
Sun Sky, Dec 2020, Acrylic and oil on canvas
Star Cloud, Ink on gesso board
Tide No. 14, Oil, acrylic & chalk on canvas
Tide No. 15, Oil and acrylic on canvas
Wind, Water, Sun 1 (Dam Flask), Graphite on gesso board
Wind, Water, Sun 2 (Dam Flask), Graphite on gesso board