Category Archives: STUDIO WORK

EXPERIMENTATION

Responding to sound through visual imagery continues to be the focus of my work and I’m looking for ways to allow the outcome to be experienced in another dimension beyond seeing. In this post I’m experimenting with producing a … Read the rest

ABSTRACTION AND SOUND

Continuing my investigation into conveying sound through image making, I ran some of my work by a group of fellow painters and their responses were enlightening. The following is what I gained from the discussion.

• They didn’t

I’m continuing to read about artists who looked to be on the cusp of abstraction in their work and were searching for new views of reality when looking at the landscape. The sensory experience of the landscape dominated their creative … Read the rest

In searching for the expression of my response to bird sound, I have been taking advantage of the time of year to catch the dawn chorus. The first time I got up at 5.15 am to draw and found that … Read the rest

Sound can be a highly emotional thing! In my explorations I am finding that ‘listening’ is a quality of life more than just one of the senses.

This piece done in wire and painted muslin followed the previous work and … Read the rest

The search to interpret ‘sound’ in paint has continued and as I wrote in the last post, exploring other media has been important in this process. My focus is the garden as this is a period of remaining housebound and … Read the rest

It has been interesting spending creative time with the new medium of wire drawing. Apart from really enjoying it, I’ve found that it has had an important effect on the painting. The wire sculptures had taken several weeks of thinking … Read the rest