September, 2011
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 | About ten years ago I made a small figure in copper from a series of drawings. After paper and wire mock ups I cut sheet copper and copper rod, used silver solder to assemble the 20cm maquette shown belo... |
29-09-2011
Word count: 157
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 | I find it difficult to account for my paintings, it is like saying something I didn't expect.
As this one materialized I saw Antoine Watteau in it, maybe not surprising as I often browse reproductions h... |
28-09-2011
Word count: 133
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 | The big story
Here is a new picture, I widen out a bit to image overarching structures.
Having respect for empirical thinking the idea of God is embraced along with related incoming concepts.
The scal... |
26-09-2011
Word count: 72
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 | Energy shot
I wonder, what it is our pictures do for us? Are they friends that comfort us, or as one client told me, his pictures made him 'feel alive'.
What power does a drawn line or applied co... |
23-09-2011
Word count: 128
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 | When ploughing or working in a newly dug trench the earth smells beautiful, as pungent and new mown grass but different. The folds of the earth always speak to me as do the workings on the surface by gen... |
20-09-2011
Word count: 125
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 | Friday I had the call!
Peter at 'Just Metal' tells me the steel figure is ready for collection. I found him and his neighbour sitting in plastic chairs drinking mugs of tea with the new sculpture betwee... |
19-09-2011
Word count: 227
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trio on blue - oil on canvas by John Scarland
The Redleaf Gallery : Dance by John Scarland
A show of new work on a 'dance' theme opens at Redleaf in Tunbridge Wells on the 30th September at 6.00pm.
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16-09-2011
Word count: 135
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 | Twombly and Poussin at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
Ruth and I travelled up to Dulwich (thats Southern Rail to East Croydon and a red 197 via Penge) then we walked in the September sun through Dulwich pa... |
15-09-2011
Word count: 166
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A fleeting glimpse of the spirit
My Psalm Project has been rather neglected. This painting is one of the few that been kept, it is one of three painted on thick card with gouache. Reading Psalms g... |
13-09-2011
Word count: 176
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Enclosed Garden 2I completed the figures (see previous) by adding colours to the spaces, the later colours became much more difficult, like finishing a game of Solitaire, but in the end quite pleasing.... |
10-09-2011
Word count: 123
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