Artists who pour paint

Recently I’ve been researching artists who pout paint for a book I’m writing on improvisation and came across thework of American artist Holton Rower.

 

 I was also able to find this video from the studio showing the making of the work

 

The Works of German artist Eberhard Ross

A couple of days back I began writing a piece on the London Art Fair where my wife's gallery Four Square Fine Arts are currently exhibiting with a themed exhibition Nature as Mind; Mind as Nature. Alas it's sitting in the draft box, partially because I've been lazy, but also because I've wanted to see how the fair panned out through my wife's feedback, once the show was over.

By all accounts the German artist Eberhard Ross has had a terrific show, so this post is a plug for him and his terrific work.

Below is short trailer for a great short documentary commissioned by the gallery that gives a great insight into Ross' ideas and way of working.

EberhardRoss_Trailer.mov Watch on Posterous

For a number of years the artist has been studying the connections between phenomena like starling swarms - also known as murmurations, and connecting patterns which he refers to a organic geometry. The gallery found this beatiful video below made by two artists that show the starling phenomena

<p>Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.</p>

A new adventure-Limited edition prints

Funny how doors open into new ventures.Over the last ten years whenever it's been suggested that I might consider doing prints of my paintings, I have deferred on the basis that the examples I have seen are in the main flat and lifeless, with colour reproduction that was generally pretty hit and miss.

And then over the summer a conversation with Rohini, a design journalist and interior stylist http://rohiniwahi.com/wp/    who had featured one of my paintings on her blog some years ago, convinced me to dip my in the water and explore doing a one off print for her.

The results has been a complete revelation to me. I've been working with the fine art printers Harwood King who have been really impressive at each stage of the process, not only getting this first print done, but in advising on the set of prints I have now gone on to do - images of which I've added below.

So here I am, now doing prints, which I really never thought I would, and enjoying it!

Morning Mist

Atmosphere: Atlantic Light

Glitter & Glower

Each print is a signed limited edition of 50, giclee and silkscreen on 330grms Somerset paper,

The prints are available from  Four Square Fine Arts  at £250 each.

 

A new adventure-Limited edition prints

Funny how doors open into new ventures.Over the last ten years whenever it's been suggested that I might consider doing prints of my paintings, I have deferred on the basis that the examples I have seen are in the main flat and lifeless, with colour reproduction that was generally pretty hit and miss.

And then over the summer a conversation with Rohini, a design journalist and interior stylist http://rohiniwahi.com/wp/    who had featured one of my paintings on her blog some years ago, convinced me to dip my in the water and explore doing a one off print for her.

The results has been a complete revelation to me. I've been working with the fine art printers Harwood King who have been really impressive at each stage of the process, not only getting this first print done, but in advising on the set of prints I have now gone on to do - images of which I've added below.

So here I am, now doing prints, which I really never thought I would, and enjoying it!

Morning Mist

Atmosphere: Atlantic Light

Glitter & Glower

Each print is a signed limited edition of 50, giclee and silkscreen on 330grms Somerset paper,

The prints are available from  Four Square Fine Arts  at £250 each.

 

A River Runs Through It

End of the studio cycle

Natural History VI the upper horizontal piece,at the AAF London last week. It featured in the previous post  being worked on at an early stage. So, now bought by a nice couple from Hackney, it goes its own way and closes a cycle. I'm sure had it remained in the studio, one day I would have seen new possibilities or directions and begun working back into it again,and perhaps in that way we are always painting the same painting. I like the quote by Arshile Gorky,

"I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while"  

Below a couple more images from the stand of  Four Square Fine Arts

 

End of the studio cycle

Natural History VI the upper horizontal piece,at the AAF London last week. It featured in the previous post  being worked on at an early stage. So, now bought by a nice couple from Hackney, it goes its own way and closes a cycle. I'm sure had it remained in the studio, one day I would have seen in it some new possibilities or directions and begun to work back into it again,and in that way perhaps we are always painting the same painting. I like the quote by Arshile Gorky,

"I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while"  

Below a couple more images from the stand of  Four Square Fine Arts