21 February 2011
clouds
Hey Peter Adams, if you're out there, I just want you to know that I have been struggling with clouds for the background of one of my "flight" paintings, and between Constable and you, I think I am finally on to something that might work for me. How are you doing these days up at the Tremont. Will you have something good for the March Show, Things We Have Lost.? Hope so!
15 February 2011
THINGS WE HAVE LOST
I am working compulsively on something for March's up-coming Group Show, I hope all the Mad and Noisy artists are into this..... there is enough scope in the theme for everyone I think.
I am trying to produce a "kind of self-portrait" in pastels on paper, representing my childhood years, but done in the manner of portraits created by itinerant artists in Canada and the U.S.A. who took likenesses of men, women and children in a time before photography, in the early 19th century. Their work was often very stylized, and simple in concept as it probably didn't take more than a day to produce. And perhaps unskilled in academic learning, but showing the sort of details that people liked to see in the end product.
It is not easy to put myself into this mind-set, and I have produced a number of failures so far, but I have a couple of weeks still, and I will keep at it, and select the best one.
I have been reading THE ENGLISH FACE by David Piper ( by coincidence ? ) and find it really fascinating. Not just all the English gossip from the 18th and 19th centuries, but his comments about paintings that I have known for years.
I am trying to produce a "kind of self-portrait" in pastels on paper, representing my childhood years, but done in the manner of portraits created by itinerant artists in Canada and the U.S.A. who took likenesses of men, women and children in a time before photography, in the early 19th century. Their work was often very stylized, and simple in concept as it probably didn't take more than a day to produce. And perhaps unskilled in academic learning, but showing the sort of details that people liked to see in the end product.
It is not easy to put myself into this mind-set, and I have produced a number of failures so far, but I have a couple of weeks still, and I will keep at it, and select the best one.
I have been reading THE ENGLISH FACE by David Piper ( by coincidence ? ) and find it really fascinating. Not just all the English gossip from the 18th and 19th centuries, but his comments about paintings that I have known for years.
11 February 2011
3 Images from the New Artists' Show
Painting in Pastel by Peter Miehm07 February 2011
NEW MEMBER ARTISTS
Six new Mad and Noisy artists are showing some of their works at the Gallery throughout February. A broad range of 2-dimensional media and varied approaches to subject-matter and content make for full and exciting wall displays, and in addition to these some unconventional designs in wood furnishings round off the show.
Brian Barrer, creative photographer, looks around him, selects his image and expands it into a new creation which often juxtapositions raw nature with "modernized nature", to create his particular form of surrealism.
Painter Sue Belcher's landscapes and scenes in oil on canvas use form and colour to create images that recall for the viewer, a memory jog to past times and places in every-day lives. She often works on large canvases with the palette knife and her feelings, and proceeds to take her compositions through many stages to its finale.
Pauline Bradshaw's paintings, by contrast, relate quite directly to the western art world's traditional masterpieces, particularly 19th c. French and British academic artists. She uses their labour-intensive, classical techniques in oil on canvas to produce romantic still-lifes which evoke the nostalgic richness of past eras.
Local Creemore artist Jordan Eveland favours groups of small and intricate works, all of them simply and decoratively composed, of motifs from nature which link together beautifully. Her multi-media explorations include kiln-fired jewellery.
Brett Lundy of Merganzer Furniture and Design in Toronto, makes pieces which demonstrate a perfect balance of form and function; art to use and pass on to future generations. Brett uses traditional construction techniques to create elegant, organic, contemporary furnishings in the most beautiful of woods and finishes.
Peter Miehm, a recent retiree from professorship at Georgian's School of Design & Visual Art in Barrie, now calls himself a "painter in pastels", but he also uses acrylic on canvas. Whatever the medium, he is a talented super-realist whose creative process takes him through many stages from photos, then working drawings, ultimately to the final composition of studies in nature. In his earlier career he worked as a commercial artist in Vancouver, before he trained as a teacher.
The Mad and Noisy Gallery welcomes all these wonderful artists who will add new dimensions to the gallery's collective spirit. If you weren't at the opening on Saturday, be sure to come by with enough time to take it all in; it's a great show.
Brian Barrer, creative photographer, looks around him, selects his image and expands it into a new creation which often juxtapositions raw nature with "modernized nature", to create his particular form of surrealism.
Painter Sue Belcher's landscapes and scenes in oil on canvas use form and colour to create images that recall for the viewer, a memory jog to past times and places in every-day lives. She often works on large canvases with the palette knife and her feelings, and proceeds to take her compositions through many stages to its finale.
Pauline Bradshaw's paintings, by contrast, relate quite directly to the western art world's traditional masterpieces, particularly 19th c. French and British academic artists. She uses their labour-intensive, classical techniques in oil on canvas to produce romantic still-lifes which evoke the nostalgic richness of past eras.
Local Creemore artist Jordan Eveland favours groups of small and intricate works, all of them simply and decoratively composed, of motifs from nature which link together beautifully. Her multi-media explorations include kiln-fired jewellery.
Brett Lundy of Merganzer Furniture and Design in Toronto, makes pieces which demonstrate a perfect balance of form and function; art to use and pass on to future generations. Brett uses traditional construction techniques to create elegant, organic, contemporary furnishings in the most beautiful of woods and finishes.
Peter Miehm, a recent retiree from professorship at Georgian's School of Design & Visual Art in Barrie, now calls himself a "painter in pastels", but he also uses acrylic on canvas. Whatever the medium, he is a talented super-realist whose creative process takes him through many stages from photos, then working drawings, ultimately to the final composition of studies in nature. In his earlier career he worked as a commercial artist in Vancouver, before he trained as a teacher.
The Mad and Noisy Gallery welcomes all these wonderful artists who will add new dimensions to the gallery's collective spirit. If you weren't at the opening on Saturday, be sure to come by with enough time to take it all in; it's a great show.
06 February 2011
PORTFOLIO OF ARTISTS
Thanks to the tremendous progress we are making collectively, I soon will have to find something else to BLOG about.
As of today, 6 Feb 2011, 41 of 44 artists have completed their pages for our Portfolio of Artists. I am confident that two more will be finished (at least in draft but presentable) before the Mad and Noisy Heads South for the opening on Friday, 11 Feb.
It sure will be nice to see the end of this project. Keep in mind, however, it will be a simple matter to keep your page up to date with a more current photo or new text. Changes will be made at your discretion and it will be easy.
David
As of today, 6 Feb 2011, 41 of 44 artists have completed their pages for our Portfolio of Artists. I am confident that two more will be finished (at least in draft but presentable) before the Mad and Noisy Heads South for the opening on Friday, 11 Feb.
It sure will be nice to see the end of this project. Keep in mind, however, it will be a simple matter to keep your page up to date with a more current photo or new text. Changes will be made at your discretion and it will be easy.
David
03 February 2011
PROFILE OF ARTISTS UPDATE
On February 3, 2011, I am happy to report that we have completed 36 of 45 Artist Pages. I am hoping that we will have a complete package before the opening of the Gladstone Exhibit. Although time is getting shorter, I am going to put the pressure on to see if we can "gitter done".
Thanks to Dennis Campbell for that great expression.
Cheers,
David
Thanks to Dennis Campbell for that great expression.
Cheers,
David
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