New Additions

I have uploaded three new paintings into the "Sound Inspired" gallery art4oka.com (see below). I have started the process of thinking about re-jigging and rearranging some of the galleries on the site. Hopefully this will be done in the next few weeks. Streamlining really. I have many new and not so new artworks to exhibit in my online gallery. I have read somewhere that one should not display too many paintings at once, almost as if less is more! However, I have also read somewhere else that art is not truly art unless it is viewed someone other than the artist. Both of these statements contain a wisdom. So how do I introduce my art to the world without displaying it? People no longer have the patience to play hide and seek and probably will not ask the question "what's under tarpaulin?" They visit to look and potentially purchase.

Hopefully my individual galleries are not too crowded and are easy to navigate.

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controlling musical machines I

Emulsion, Acrylic & Pencil on paper

42cm x 40cm

This painting is the first version of “controlling musical machines” which can be of course described as musical instruments. The abstracted figure is stuck, hypnotised in front of a blue light emitting screen. Making slight visual adjustments that affect the noises in the ears. I can’t do anything until you make the noise. We sit in front of a glass screen for instruction, information and experience.

source of sound

Acrylic & Charcoal on paper

39cm x 56cm

Inspired by a child’s drawing indicating the direction of the sound and perhaps the sound itself. For example the sound of aggression of someone shouting. The painting was created in landscape format, but when turned to portrait coincidentally the image resembles a screaming mouth. Powerful active lines and strokes of the paintbrush are easily deciphered as energy. In Eastern martial arts sound is also used as part of the force used to control the energy. The ringing of a bell with just the power of the sound emitted from a master without physically touching the bell.

volume increases irritation

Acrylic & Pencil on canvas

73cm x 50cm

Painted after hours of sampling & editing digital music. The volume control doesn't make allowances for mistakes. As the volume is increased then the annoyance is increased. When trying to concentrate, increasing the volume increases the level of irritation.

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I've Been Doing Stuff!

One reason for having my own website art4oka.com is even though I have been researching for months and months I have still not found another site or artist's work that is along the same lines as mine. This is either a good thing being unique and rare. Or it could be a bad thing; that anyone who produces work like mine hates it and never wants to show it to anyone. I guess that is the beauty and fickleness of Art, peoples tastes and sensibilities differ. I have found a few artists who produce work that could be considered to be in the same ball park. I have no exhibiting restrictions at art4oka.

What I need is someone or something to do all the admin, the posting , the blogging, the networking and all the prep work. I am sure every body else thinks the same way too. We are all busy, busy looking after the things that are meant to automate our lives and provide more leisure time. When we charge our devices we reach for another one. I've been doing stuff! Procrastinating, organising and fleshing out and adding more detailed images to my websites product pages. As follows.

Piston Off - mixed media on paper - 40cm x 52cm - Unthemed Gallery - art4oka.com

"Is the industrial revolution over? We are producing more waste than ever before, now we are living in the digital age. Disposable but everlasting. Hopefully less fossil fuel is being burnt; however the effects are longer lasting as the supposed progress still has momentum. Huge mining projects pillage the mother earth to gain the supply demanded rare metals and elements which are processed so we cannot see them anymore, never to be replaced or recycled."

I do occasionally come across various artists online who are represented by established galleries. Then I think "my work might fit in with some of the artists that are represented" Then I might contact that gallery online to enquire and send samples and links. It must be over a dozen now. They must be doing stuff too. No replies.

However, the galleries do put me on their mailing lists for upcoming sales and promotions.

On that note I was "invited" to a local "Art Fair" where thirty or so "contemporary" ish galleries

displayed selected works from their high street galleries. My savvy daughter and I visited and tried to network and collect flyers. I subsequently contacted some of these displaying galleries. One has answered my email and has taken me on. Thank you UK Artists online!

I need to set up a gallery page and upload images etc. more stuff I'll be doing!

For a month or two I have been displaying some of my artworks on Art2Arts.co.uk which is a general online gallery, I am under the abstract section. My art looks okay, but again there is nothing similar to compare to. To my delight I have been made Artist of the Month for July.

See the image below. which I will be distributing on my social media. I need to gather more followers or is it virtual friends, difficult making friends when in front of the all seeing eye.

New For Old

I have uploaded some new/old images onto the website art4oka.com !!!

New /old because these particular artworks were completed a few years ago now and have been in storage, actually at the back of an old portfolio.

I have mentioned before that I have been creating art for many years now. Obviously within that time ideas and emphasises change and even techniques alter.

Many things have happened since I produced these artworks, both on a personal level as well as an external level. Getting married, moving house several times, mundane jobs and having children to name but a few in no particular order. For example when I made some of these newly uploaded artworks compact discs had only just started to be available for data storage, usb drives and Gigabyte storage was unheard of. However, now I would like to think that I am older, wiser and wonderfully weather worn.

New for old or old for new. rediscovering these old artworks takes me back in time, to a different me. New technologies (digital photographs) have been applied and the images have been uploaded to the "un-themed" gallery at art4oka.com and are awaiting a loving home.

Welcome Shelter Egg strap Brain dance Assist

There are many more additions to come, but I will have to jiggle the website content around a little and maybe make some more galleries to keep it streamlined.

There has been a delay in postings as I have been absorbed and immersed in creating new works in my small creative windows. These are generally the updating and enhancing of previous sketch book ideas and experiments based on collages which include discarded photographs. I must have produced around thirty A4 sized artworks all of a similar flavour. All these old/new artworks need scanning in and preparing etc. This will be done soon enough, but as mentioned above another gallery will need to be created to exhibit the new additions.

I have finally sorted an account on Instagram so please follow when you can and spread the word. more time required to do more things for less physical achievement. #art4oka