It’s time for me to introduce new experiments into my paintings. I’m taking a look back at surfaces, and how to alter the surface to have a different effect on my …
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Grounds for…
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Dawn Endean
This post is an example of it’s own point about how art is changed by frequency, constant inflow, and connectivity. I’m putting this blog post out before the ink dries, without fact checking, …
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Karen Margolis
What happens when paper is treated as a raw material, instead of a flat white rectangle? The photograph to the left is one that’s been circulating on the internet lately. This …
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Henry Moore: Drawings of Hands
In these drawings Henry Moore describes the aged body. He made a series of drawings of his own hands when he was eighty-one and suffering from ill-health, and he did more of Dorothy …
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Henry Moore: Drawings of Sheep
Sculptors think in terms of mass, volume, weight and texture. Those elements are present even in their 2D work. Henry Moore (1898 – 1986) is known mainly for his sculptures, but he also …
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Painting Grass
This is the beginning of a collection: examples of painted grass. When I paint grass I usually start with large shapes first, light swathes of masses break the canvas into smaller …
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In the Bathtub
Few things are as evocative, intimate, and private as moments spent bathing. The bathtub offers an emotional framework. Door locked, body submerged, the bathtub is an internal world. The figure …
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Aurore de la Morinerie
Aurore de la Morinerie began as a fashion designer in Paris. She then spent two years studying chinese calligraphy, and traveled in Japan, India, China, and Egypt. She says that through …
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JR’s Monumental Artworks Have an Olympic Moment in Rio
JR is a pseudonym of a French artist who flyposts* large black-and-white photographs on the street, often challenging advertising and media by the use of portraiture and community involvement. In 2010, JR won …
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