Exhibition Open

Great news! one of my paintings is being displayed in "The Landscape" Exhibition at the

The Open Gallery

18 Rawson Street, Halifax, West Yorkshire, U.K

HX1 1NH (W3W race.cope.trials)

Opening times

4th October - 20th October

11am - 4pm Tues - Sat

Chapter 7: Imagined view

Acrylic & conte crayon on photograph

An imagined view of a landscape rather than a view of an imagined landscape. I think that there is a difference. I have had dreams similar to this, but the colours were definitely different to those in the painting. I no longer have those dreams, as I think I have already visited the places I used to imagine.

Below is another example of one of my landscape themed paintings, Both artworks and others can be found in the R.S.N. Gallery at www.art4oka.com

The Story Part 9: Landscape

Acrylic & conte crayon on photograph

Number 9 in the titling sequence, this has no bearing on any imagined story line. Another viewpoint or point of view. The “story” series of paintings are all created with acrylic painted over photographic paper and enhanced with natural shaded conte crayon. Trying to connect with a more “primitive” colour scheme, ochres, ash whites and black charcoal.

My next few post will probably contain exhibition notices, with examples of the kind of artworks you will discover at the relevant galleries. Busy times ahead!

Project 53

Project 53 consists of mainly A4 sized landscape and portrait orientated artworks of mixed media on paper/ photo collages. Often reworked old thoughts and states of mind. Subtle colouring with delicate, detailed sections in coloured pencil and ballpoint pen.

On a previous post I mentioned that I was reviewing some of my old sketch books, pulling out and isolating some of the images. Some did not need adjusting such as "thrown", "fatigue" and "yaksad" (available in the 2029 gallery www.art4oka.com)

thrown oil pastel & conte on paper

Other works needed various levels of tweaking. Working in my creative window. I was able to do a little tweaking here and a little adjusting there, as and when the time allowed. After a couple of weeks of this editing and enhancing I had finished.

I finished last week to be exact. After clearing up the mess I laid all the pieces out on the studio desk and floor. I nearly ran out of space as there are over 53 of them! I was excited and thrilled to see them all out together. They represented a new era or style of painting for me, on the whole, I was very pleased with how they turned out. All of them are A4 (20cm x 29cm) or slightly smaller and look wonderful mounted up.

W27

mixed media on paper/ photo collage

I decided to call them the W series (one for every week of the year), well slight more actually but it will do. So their working titles were W1 or W48. Then I remembered that I am now 53 years old, not only that, but the week in which I finished this project I had 53 of my artworks out at various exhibitions.

During the scanning in and detailed section imaging I was able to give some of them proper names, such as : "the heavy goose" "haus 16" and "hungapangalow" .

So now that I have finished scanning, image gathering and adjusting the dpi. I have to name them all and write some choice words about the members of Project 53.

hungapangalow

mixed media on paper/ photo collage

I have built another gallery on my website www.art4oka.com

Project 53 to exhibit selected examples.

Some of the artworks created draw inspirations unconsciously from and have leanings towards the work of Hieronymus Bosch, Paul Klee and Max Ernst's wartime grattage style paintings, there are also glimpses of Robert Rauschenberg's photographic collages.

New Views

Four new galleries have been added to my website!

I've had a bit of a re-shuffle and I've added four new galleries to art4oka.com There are also now thirty plus new artworks that have been upload for your viewing pleasure. Some of the artworks's text entries are not just simple statements about colours and forms.

I hope you exploring the new galleries and the new work pleases you.

R.S.N Random Sequence Narrative:

As the images were laid out at random, they started to inform each other, just because of their position in the sequence. I began to read the images as a story or as if they were the chapters in a book. Unrelated non-sequential abstract images. A narrative without a point.

The Story Part 7 Acrylic & conte crayon on Photograph

2029:

All artworks displayed in this gallery are 20cm x 29cm or smaller in size

"A bell rings we look away, distracted as always by something other. A ping, a post informing us of a well-being app being available. Just a minute my phone is buzzing, I must see what that is. The message states that it is time for my exercise; I must keep fit, healthy body, healthy mind. When I take my dog for a walk, we don’t talk anymore I’m busy on my phone. My dog’s name is Pavlov."

Focus on

Emulsion, spray paint and conte crayon on photograph

Project 53:

Project 53 mainly consists of A4 sized landscape and portrait orientated artworks of mixed media on paper/ photo collages. Often reworked old thoughts and states of mind.

Looking After The Rabbits

mixed media on paper

Drawer:

This gallery contains a mixture of original drawings.

Abstract representation

Talus Saw

Ballpoint pen on paper

www.art4oka.com