I found this artists work on another Blog I follow titled Neutral Notes. What a wonderfully abundant place of inspiration we live in now with blogs, artist sites and other treasure troves found on the WWW!
Lurking and latent within me is a painter which one day (soon) I will explore. In the meantime, I am drawing inspiration everywhere and one artist's work (Cheryl Taves) resonates deeply within me.
I love the rich colour, gestural line and surface quality of her work.
Scott Marr is an artist represented by Katoomba Fine Art here in the Blue Mountains. This amazing video shows Scott at work on one of his artworks using time lapse photography.
"This image is burnt onto paper using pyrography, all pigments used in this piece are hand made from nature, most of which I have collected from the Blue Mountains Australia.
Pigments used, eucalypt bark wash, liquid chlorophyll, eucalypt sap, plane tree charcoal, ochres, lapis lazuli, malachite, coriopsis flower wash, dianella berry wash and eucalypt charcoal.
I'd like to give a big shout out to Phil at nospuds.com.au for all his help." - Scott Marr
With my exhibition titled 'Second Nature II' at Lost Bear Gallery still a few months away, my studio is unusually messy with bags of coloured soil, stacked pizza boxes of artwork ready to frame and 'Pods' in various stages of completion. I finally feel like I am getting somewhere with the work.
This will be my first solo exhibition at Katoomba Fine Arts latest gallery in Leura whichhas been running as a exhibition space for artists in two week turnaround period throughout 2011. My exhibition will be following an exhibition of new work by Warwick Fuller whose luscious oil paintings of landscapes I always am inspired by.
Todays work began at 4.45am, as I could not sleep and thought I could either watch early morning infomercials on TV or do something productive. Several cups of coffee later, I was blissfully unaware of the time and several hours had slipped by and my fingers were caked with soil and glue. Below is an advertisement which Geoff White of Katoomba Fine Art has put together for the magazine 'Craft Arts International' which should feature in the next issue.
Wednesday was described as an historic day at the Art Gallery of NSW when Edmund Capon, after 33 years as Director, held a press conference to announce his retirement. As it happened, the event coincided with a planned trip to the gallery, so I was amongst the cameras, journalists, NSW Premier and board of directors bustling around the floor waiting for the announcement. My friend Flic, who works at the gallery as photographer, was in among the mix of media folk snapping away and got some wonderful shots.
I spent the remainder of the day soaking up all the current works on display and seeing the Kaldor Gallery/collection for the first time. One of my favourite works was that of Bill Viola whose looped projection titled 'Memoria' 2000 had me transfixed watching a disintegrating face move in and out of focus on a suspended piece of silk.-"Shot using an old surveillance camera in low light, the footage shows a man’s face but ‘visual noise’ intermittently obscures the image. This ghostly effect is exaggerated by projecting the image onto silk cloth hanging in a darkened room. The work recalls the shroud of Turin, a piece of fabric said to bear the imprint of the body of Christ. In a similar way,Memoria explores the idea of presence and absence." - AGNSW.
On the upper level of the gallery is an exhibition of works by David Aspden (1935-2005). I was immediately attracted to a large painting titled 'Mountain Scenery' 1973. I learned that he had spent time here in the Blue Mountains. No wonder the colours sang to me.
