So quite fired up now on coffee and sparking off ideas we arrange to meet at Barbara's studio on Thursday morning to start on the canvases , then they'll be ready to work on next week at Cobnor using charcole ?
Tuesday 29 March 2011
Meeting up with Barbara at Pallant House
So quite fired up now on coffee and sparking off ideas we arrange to meet at Barbara's studio on Thursday morning to start on the canvases , then they'll be ready to work on next week at Cobnor using charcole ?
Monday 28 March 2011
Partners in Art :
Barbara Macfarlane is Joel's partner in art ; a scheme set up by Pallant House Chichester . She and Joel have been working together now for a couple of years and produced a body of work which was exhibited in a show at Pallant House last November.That project started at Cobnor painting seascapes and ended up at W. Dean painting flora which niether Barbara or Joel had ever done before or ever visualised doing !
Barbara will continue to mentor Joel throughout this prodject: We met up a couple of weeks ago to brainstorm ideas for it and decided that they will begin by sending each other A6 postcards (using Khadi Paper ) of simple black line drawings , and the recipient colours it in ! Painting by numbers ! Barbara was in Paris so Joel has already recieved one from there , and he has sent 3 from different nearby harbour locations ...none of which are Cobor !
We plan to meet up tomorrow at a costal location ...possibly Cobnor ? The aim is to paint the colours that day in a Paul Klee style grid ? possibly using the system they developed in the last project of dividing up a canvas into a grid ,painting one square each from a limited colour pallet on the grid and then swapping canvases to again paint another random square on the grid until the canvas is filled. Then meet again at this location to record the colours throught the year.
Barbara will continue to mentor Joel throughout this prodject: We met up a couple of weeks ago to brainstorm ideas for it and decided that they will begin by sending each other A6 postcards (using Khadi Paper ) of simple black line drawings , and the recipient colours it in ! Painting by numbers ! Barbara was in Paris so Joel has already recieved one from there , and he has sent 3 from different nearby harbour locations ...none of which are Cobor !
We plan to meet up tomorrow at a costal location ...possibly Cobnor ? The aim is to paint the colours that day in a Paul Klee style grid ? possibly using the system they developed in the last project of dividing up a canvas into a grid ,painting one square each from a limited colour pallet on the grid and then swapping canvases to again paint another random square on the grid until the canvas is filled. Then meet again at this location to record the colours throught the year.
Creating the temperary work space:
An accessable studio space is key to this project so we have researched the maximum sizing allowed by our local planning office , which doesn't require planning permition. This works out at about 14x11ft and no higher than 2.5m. It should be 2m from the boundry, and thats it !
So we've meassured out the space in the garden and decided to keep the windows on the north side and by making that side of roof opaque plastic maximise north light and interior wall space (for working on). Its base will sit on sleepers rather than a concrete base , to keep costs down and lessen the impact on the environment.
Again to keep costs down and lower impact on the environment we want to use recycled materials as much as possible. We have managed to get the doors windows and plastic roofing from a neighbour who was taking down their conservarory, which is fantastic ! Tony our wonderful builder is constructing the frame at home and then errecting it in Joel's garden possibly this week !
It will be completely insulated walls /floor /roof to keep a constant temperature for the paintings and for Joel to work of coures !
So we've meassured out the space in the garden and decided to keep the windows on the north side and by making that side of roof opaque plastic maximise north light and interior wall space (for working on). Its base will sit on sleepers rather than a concrete base , to keep costs down and lessen the impact on the environment.
Again to keep costs down and lower impact on the environment we want to use recycled materials as much as possible. We have managed to get the doors windows and plastic roofing from a neighbour who was taking down their conservarory, which is fantastic ! Tony our wonderful builder is constructing the frame at home and then errecting it in Joel's garden possibly this week !
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| Location for studio... sorry little holly tree.. |
Setting up the project: 1 . Statement, Starting Point :
I am a painter and my preferred medium is oil on canvas.
When I paint my aim is to try to capture the essence of all that is familiar in my surroundings. My subjects range from landscape to seascape, from a plant to a piece of fruit. I am interested in our ever changing environment and how everyday things which we take for granted can be transformed; by light, the seasons, weather and man.
I strive to translate what I see into artwork that will enrich the viewers’ lives and provide them with a different perspective. I want to share my vision of a world constantly in flux and through that enable them to develop a new awareness of their environment and their place with in it.
The scale of my work is as important as the subject matter; it is the physical equivalent to what it is representing. When I paint a large outdoor landscape the canvas I choose to paint on must be as large as I feel the landscape to be. I try to create an impact in scale that mirrors the emotional and physical one I am trying to capture.
In my work it is imperative to work from life and not from photographs and second hand imagery. Being out there interacting with my environment is being alive - real! Working from photographs is a miserable and meaner experience, the vitality and essence of what I want to capture is lost.
Doing the work in situ is the work, there is no other way.
When I paint my aim is to try to capture the essence of all that is familiar in my surroundings. My subjects range from landscape to seascape, from a plant to a piece of fruit. I am interested in our ever changing environment and how everyday things which we take for granted can be transformed; by light, the seasons, weather and man.
I strive to translate what I see into artwork that will enrich the viewers’ lives and provide them with a different perspective. I want to share my vision of a world constantly in flux and through that enable them to develop a new awareness of their environment and their place with in it.
The scale of my work is as important as the subject matter; it is the physical equivalent to what it is representing. When I paint a large outdoor landscape the canvas I choose to paint on must be as large as I feel the landscape to be. I try to create an impact in scale that mirrors the emotional and physical one I am trying to capture.
In my work it is imperative to work from life and not from photographs and second hand imagery. Being out there interacting with my environment is being alive - real! Working from photographs is a miserable and meaner experience, the vitality and essence of what I want to capture is lost.
Doing the work in situ is the work, there is no other way.
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