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Aug. 27th, 2007 12:05 pmIts that framing time of year again.
I have to get submissions framed for The Mall Galleries within the next coupla weeks and for an exhibition at Et Cetera gallery that I'm showing male nude drawings at from 12th September. Some work will have to be framed by the professionals (I get it done by the Railings Gallery, off Marylebone High Street) and some can do with 'off the peg' frames (Paintworks, Hoxton).
The stuff to be framed by Railings are paintings I've done this year of rock formations that look strangely like things, eg 'Giant's Head Rock' off the Antrim Coast (I drew it from a pal's fishing boat last summer) and 'Lion Rock' in the Cheddar Gorge which I happened upon this February while staying in the village of Mark. I'm still working on and off, on 'The Sleeping Giant' hills from memory and an old photo.
I feel these ancient rock formations have a great potency: to paint them as they are is absolutely nothing like tiresome pseudo-surrealist depictions of "things that look like things" because the artist has imagined them that way or is going for a certain effect.
These rocks are invested with the wonder of countless people who have lived or travelled by them down the years, becoming part of folklore and the people themselves, till they attain a strange and magical presence.
Lion Rock
I have to get submissions framed for The Mall Galleries within the next coupla weeks and for an exhibition at Et Cetera gallery that I'm showing male nude drawings at from 12th September. Some work will have to be framed by the professionals (I get it done by the Railings Gallery, off Marylebone High Street) and some can do with 'off the peg' frames (Paintworks, Hoxton).
The stuff to be framed by Railings are paintings I've done this year of rock formations that look strangely like things, eg 'Giant's Head Rock' off the Antrim Coast (I drew it from a pal's fishing boat last summer) and 'Lion Rock' in the Cheddar Gorge which I happened upon this February while staying in the village of Mark. I'm still working on and off, on 'The Sleeping Giant' hills from memory and an old photo.
I feel these ancient rock formations have a great potency: to paint them as they are is absolutely nothing like tiresome pseudo-surrealist depictions of "things that look like things" because the artist has imagined them that way or is going for a certain effect.
These rocks are invested with the wonder of countless people who have lived or travelled by them down the years, becoming part of folklore and the people themselves, till they attain a strange and magical presence.
Lion Rock
