Making New Work

This year has been heavy on administration and a bit light on making. Having had some success with the promotion I have decided to have a concentrated period of making, and have started on a series of works under the working tile of Spaces In Between.  There is still admin to be done but I am going to  make an attempt to go back to my earlier resolution to limit it to one hour a day max.  Today that is this blog plus twitter and instagram, and then the next few days will be the Corby Glen appointments.  It is also prime competition entry time so I will have to be picky about what I enter.

New Tiny Experiments in colour in process, all 10x10cm

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 80x80cm currently drying

close to dry 80x80 cm, made using Cadmium RedPurple and earth tones, and just a little green, once dry I will de deciding hat to do about the surface sheen which is currently rather lovely in its wet state, so may add a gloss finish to parts

50x50cm, hand mixed oil on canvas, still drying, and as it dries the turquoise in particular changes its appearance

work drying

100x100cm, handmixed oil on canvas, base coat in indigo, 2017

And there are others, lots of my work currently needs a mask because of poisonous pigments and toxic solvents.....

I am making some new bigger work

This is the very first stage of a piece which will be 150x100cm

Exhibiting at Tower 42

So at the end of Roy’s People Art Fair I had a bunch of leads, things to follow up, and so I did.

On Monday I will be installing work for a 3 month exhibition at Tower 42, 25 Old Broad Street, London EC2N right in the heart of the City.  I will have a cabinet including two sculptures:

Phoenix Egg

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Mr Equiano’s Scales

along with 4 of my Small Experiments in Colour and 4 of my Tiny Experiments in Colour, in addition I will be installing one large work in the downstairs lobby on the wall to the right as you go up the stairs a few days later.

In addition to this opportunity there are two others in the pipeline.

So as well as following up with these I was off to Corby Glen for the sheep fair, recruiting people to share their memories for the Corby Glenn project.  I have over 30 volunteers, I have been in touch with the gallery for available days for recording which they have kindly provided, so the next job is to allocate them all a slot which I will do after Monday.

Today I am spending the day making sure all the frames, work and even sugar lumps are in perfect condition, and wrapping things to take on Monday.  Got to make sure there is some family time this weekend!