Wellington Exhibition

Exhibition in March

I've been working hard over the past few months to complete work for an exhibition at PotockiPaterson Art Gallery in Wellington, March 17 - April 9;  flyer will follow soon.

Below are two of these works.

             After the Trees (Red Vessels)    2015     
  Acrylic, oil, pigment, rust, verdigris, encaustic,
oil stick and gold leaf cardboard reliefs
on composition board    37x37cm

‘Quicker Marred Than Made’        2016   
Acrylic, verdigris, rust, gold leaf, acrylic castings,
letterpress, cardboard relief on mounted plywood     20x60cm

Looking at Rocks

After the Trees: Landscape
210x170mm 2015-16
Acrylic media and metals 

After the Trees: Rock and metal
210x170mm 2015-16
Acrylic media, metal and wax

  

The rocky cliffs that enclose the curving shores of Waiheke Island's beautiful bays are a source of inspiration in my work; they are a perfect metaphor for the passage of time.  In his poem 'On the Nature of Things' written in the last century BCE, Lucretius Carus reflecting on the evidence of time wrote...

"Stones are also conquered by Time,

  ...  lofty towers ruin down

and boulders crumble ..."

Over the past 14 years I have holidayed annually at Waiheke Island and am always drawn to the rocks. I've sketched them, photographed them - film and digital, made many paintings of them over the years in oils, acrylic and more recently in encaustic, and this year I made castings from them for use in my current project.  Above are two images from this body of work.

One Square Foot

                

                

           

One Square Foot: Driftwood;  One Square Foot: Leaves;   One Square Foot Shells;      One Square Foot: Seaweed

205-2016. Media:   Each work is 150x280mm

On the beach at Waiheke Island about a year ago I chose one square foot of beach and collected whatever was on it. Last year I made some encaustic castings of these objects and tucked them away. When I came across them recently I decided to make some little wooden boxes to install them in. I put a bronze patina on the wood then painted tiny landscapes using various acrylic media with sand and silver leaf to go above. 

On the Nature of Things: Nine Studies.

Ideas in the writings of Lucretius in his 'De Rerum Natura', and ideas from current research into partical physics underly my current work.

Three works about Space and Time

'Time and Matter' 2014-15
Mixed media on board, 300x300mm + frame

The Very Large and the Very Small No.1   2014-15
Encaustic with various media on board, 300x300mm + frame

The Very Large and the Very Small No.2  2014-15
Encaustic with various media on board, 300x300mm + frame

Celestial Seeds and Time

Lucretius' poem 'De Rerum Natura' (On the Nature of Things) is a continuing source of inspiration.

Below are four of the works combining the 9cm squares shown in earlier posts. 

They include encaustic, cast wax and various other media on board.

Seed Celestial Series,  No.1: Infinity.  2015

Seed Celestial Series,  No.2: Orbit. 2015

Time Exists Not, No 1.  2015

Time Exists Not, No 2.  2015