39″ x 39″ oil on canvas (still wraped up after collecting from framers)
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Roadtrips and long journeys hurtle undefined landscapes past your window. Star-shaped spears spin and pierce the night sky as they shoot from streetlights and mountains stand solid on the horizon as the trees in the foreground blur and streak across your eyes.
Walk Away or Jump’ – 55″ x 55″ oil on canvas (painted 2010)
Inspired by a cliff walk with one of Robert Rauschenberg’s assistants in 1978. The implications of this encounter still roll around in my brain. ‘Walk Away or Jump’. This was possibly one of the major turning points in my life – what did I turn down? Fame, fortune?
“In 1969 Robert Rauschenberg was invited by NASA to witness the lift-off of Apollo 11 at Kennedy Space Center and to use this theme in his work. He created a series of lithographs celebrating the astonishing achievements of the United States NASA Apollo Mission to the Moon. The Stoned Moon series was actually a double pun – the image of this historically groundbreaking event being put on lithographic stones and the feeling of being ’stoned’ metaphorically on one of the most important events in the history of man.” (from original url: www.orbit.zkm.de/?q=node/277 )
This series of lithographs were (and still are) a massive influence on my painting, printing and music. Images (sound) that is arbitrarily spliced together in an apparent random manor, will when juxtaposed against each other create a narrative. This meshing together of unrelated imagery may appear to be arbitrary but the intellectual decision making that goes with the process is absolutely phenomenal . It is therefore unrealistic to expect the uneducated masses to view these images as ‘real art’. The birth of Photoshop has enabled everybody to create ‘non-intellectual’ versions of Rauschenberg (and Warhol) – only the educated understand.
Oil on canvas.
The image above is of a painting I did entitled, ‘Lake Zürich (Early Morning)’. This photograph was taken by Sue Sunderland in West Buckland Church (North Devon) where it was part of the West Buckland Festival Exhibition in 2009.
This painting was inspired by driving along the edge of this massive lake early in the morning.
Road trips and long journeys hurtle undefined landscapes past your window. Star-shaped spears spin and pierce the night sky as they shoot from streetlights and mountains stand solid on the horizon as the trees in the foreground blur and streak across your eyes.
Oil paint on canvas
…the experience of the landscape viewed in shorthand, the trick is to imply with the minimum of effort…
Unfortunately the majority of landscape art fails miserably however, ‘Lake Lucerne: the Bay of Uri from above Brunnen‘ circa 1844 (by Turner) is the ultimate painting of landscape and nature – it tells a massive story with very little content. This has been an important painting for me since the early 1970’s. I have always admired the New York Abstract Expressionists of the mid 20th century but when I first saw this painting by Turner…… my sock were blown off. It is without doubt a clever (maybe unfinished) conceptual landscape painting. Read more…
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