BPH, it's a blurred tree line. Samuel Colman is quite a discovery for me, thanks!
Emily Carr
Tom Thompson
Re: Visual Artists
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 7:48 am
by Harvey
Van Gogh, at his most luminous amongst the trees...
Re: Visual Artists
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 2:47 pm
by Harvey
A couple of experiments I've done since begining this thread, based on the artist in the OP. I'm going to do a series of 'machinemals' ostensibly to play with the machine metaphor of life and hopefully point toward its inadequacies.
Re: Visual Artists
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 7:33 pm
by Harvey
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt 1736 - 1783
Re: Visual Artists
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 3:12 pm
by Harvey
Otto Dix, self portrait.
Re: Visual Artists
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 3:13 pm
by Harvey
Alastair Adams, portrait of Bruce Robinson.
Re: Visual Artists
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 3:15 pm
by Harvey
Portrait of Alan Garner by Andrew Tift.
Re: Visual Artists
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2019 9:56 am
by MacCruiskeen
^^England's greatest living writer. Thank you for that.
Garner's books have meant a lot to me since I was nine years old (though, as AG himself has always stressed, he is "not a children's writer").
One of those great books was illustrated by the great Charles Keeping:
I wholeheartedly agree. I think I was seven when we were read Weirdstone of Brasingamen each afternoon in school, one chapter at a time. Luckily there was a book fair at the school that week and I begged my mother to buy it for me and delighted in reading ahead the night before so that I knew what was coming before everyone else.
It would be hard to overestimate the impact his work has had upon me, from the early novels, through Redshift and his book of essays The Voice That Thunders to later novels like Strandloper, Thursbitch and Boneland. An astonishing, uncategorisable writer and essential reading for RI folk, I would have thought. There's no one like him. Unfortunately, apart from a few, his work is criminally under available in print.
A friend of mine worked on a number of projects with him a few years ago and I think he has hours of interview with Alan. I'll ask if he's released any of it and let you know where to find it.
Re: Visual Artists
Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2019 9:57 am
by Harvey
Here's my latest work with the final element in place, the willow frame which I finished yesterday. Very pleased with it.