01/12/20
…wrapping
Ars longa, vita brevis.
02/12/20
‘A Brush with… Ragnar Kjartansson’ podcast
“Art is a shelter from a storm” - Ragnar Kjartansson
03/12/20
An opportunistic pitch to pat themselves on the back.
04/12/20
NT - how you might approach and on what grounds.
06/12/20
“Norwegian” notes: warmer flesh tones? Texture in sand (sawdust?)
07/12/20
Some really good sketchbook work done tonight.
10/12/20
Commended for the Moth Art Prize 2020!
Thought I had destroyed “Norwegian Stance” a few times today but it’s a stubborn git. In any case it was good to get paint down.
…some sketching work tonight but not much.
11/12/20
One minute I think the painting is finished and then a wee niggly bit pops up.
14/12/20
15/12/20
Belfast. Three months on…
Seeing “Hotel ‘78” with the name tag beside it made it all the more real. Great to see around the RUA.
Jaunt to the Golden Thread Gallery. Absolutely stunning show “Put It To The People” by Joy Gerrard. I’ve seen similar small scale works before but the larger canvases are amazing! Real gestural mark making at it’s finest.
The Peter Liversidge show in the MAC is at such an epic scale. Uplifting messages and cool to see the workstation tucked away at the back. The “In a Rainbow of Coalitions” show in the MAC was colourful, fun and poignant.
18/12/20
What’s been lacking recently is the idea of structure. Lists are missing. I love lists. I think this happens around this time every year.
… large scaled drawings - add a link between the pen drawings and paintings…
20/12/20
23/12/20
27/12/20
Inspiration is not reliable. Keep curious and critical. You don’t know everything and never will. Perfect conditions don’t exist so stop waiting for the ‘right’ time. Art is not who you are - art is a way of expressing who you are.
29/12/20
Tidying loose ends.
30/12/20
Doing these semi-traditional write ups at this time of year helps to take stock of what’s been happening. Hopefully subliminal pointers of where to possibly go next have been planted for the time ahead.