Monday, November 5, 2012

November: surprises

I've become more curious about working in a unplanned, responsive way with a certain raw messiness. Like playing in a sandbox. 

This piece took many turns. For a while it was a wildly gestural mess. I do love working that way. Once I began to play around with more structured shapes the piece began to fall into place. Great surprise.



"Vessel 1"
18" x 22'
collage: hand painted papers, acrylic and metallic paints, drawing media, glue mediums on bristol paper

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Putting things together in October


"Springing Forth"
15" x 18"
collage: hand painted papers, acrylic and metallic paints, drawing media, glue mediums on bristol paper



"Free Notes"
22.50" x 17.25"
collage: hand painted papers, paints (acrylic-metallic), drawing media, glue mediums on bristol paper.




"Buoyance"
21.50" x  16.25"
collage: hand painted papers, paints (acrylic-metallic), drawing media, glue mediums on bristol paper.




"Depths Hidden"
collage: hand painted papers, paints (acrylic-metallic), drawing media, glue mediums on bristol paper.


Monday, September 24, 2012

September's work

These are the pieces of the last several weeks, still mostly in process. I've started working on larger sizes of bristol paper, 19 x 24. I continue to work freely, allowing the marks or papers I've put down to say something to me. Many times I'm listening to music, lots of classical piano these days and that begins the relationship to the new piece. I keep letting the momentum of the piece build, following it's lead.

I'm also finding out about "mistakes" and what it means to continue to work with them. Some of my most favorite pieces have felt like huge mistakes at some point leaving me feeling a bit stumped but sure there's more interesting things to follow.



"In Concert"
22" x 18"
collage: hand painted papers, paint (acrylic, metallic), pencil, pen, mat medium on bristol paper




collage in process




collage in process



collage in process

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

more collages

These are the collages that I finished up today. This set since the workshop have been put together in a month-the flow is on. I love the way these pieces come,  no laboring over the placements, there's instead a joy and abandon as I keep working. I'm making sure I get out more rather than a few "special" ones.



"Alchemy 1"
11.5" x 16.5"
collage: hand painted papers, found papers, acrylic and metallic paints, drawing media, glue mediums on watercolor paper




"Third Movement"
11.5" x 12.75"
collage: hand painted papers, found papers, acrylic and metallic paints, drawing media, glue medium on watercolor paper




"Movement 2"
collage: hand painted papers, acrylic and metallic paints, drawing media, glue mediums on watercolor paper

Monday, July 30, 2012

collages since the workshop

Things are really moving. I've found this freedom in putting down the various parts of each collage. It's very intuitive, no thoughts. There's also something coming about opposites; chaos and order, the jagged and then easeful, movement and stillness. There's also a love of classic curved form next to a rougher feel. Let's see how this language of expression unfolds.

Here are some of the latest pieces.



"Glimpse 1"
11.5" x 17"
collage: hand painted papers, found papers, acrylics, metallic paints on bristol paper




"Glimpse 2"
11.25" x 13"
collage; hand painted papers, drawing media, acrylics, metallic paints on bristol  paper




"Fly High"
"13 x 15"
collage; hand painted papers, drawing media, acrylics, metallic paints on watercolor paper
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Monday, July 23, 2012

July's collage workshop

I spent an exciting and invigorating afternoon at a collage workshop given earlier this month by Dean Nimmer. He was a favorite teacher many moons ago at Mass Art in Boston and is now giving workshops modeled after his book, "Art from Intuition". These three pieces were among a bunch done very quickly that afternoon, the theme being; do it quickly so the mind doesn't have time to get involved and have fun too!

It was very liberating to work that way as I kept gluing down various papers-giving little thought as to whether the choice was "good or okay".  Another part of the process included removing already glued down parts of the collage-four parts to be exact-even if they seemed just perfect! This really kept things moving along out of the realm of preciousness-hahaha. And big surprise, I loved the results!

So I spent my time slapping down and ripping off with a huge smile on my face!

My next post will be about what's been coming afterwards!

Dean's info is here:
http://deannimmer.com/
http://artfromintuition.com/
                           








Sunday, July 22, 2012

New work!

It's time for posting. These pieces come from the past year with the newest at the top. It's been an incubation period, learning loads about the expression of images that flow through me.

One of the things I get into is a flow of gesture. The focus is total with my whole body and energy involved. It's quite addictive, like dancing. I want to combine this kind of energy with collage work. Here are some from that kind of work.


first movement


rite of spring




 These are collages made in the spring. I used my own handpainted papers-some solid and others quite transparent, paint, pastel, pen, printed images and parts from other, unfinished pieces. These collages feel a bit reserved-their process is not so big and flowing as the gestural above and the much more energetic and freeing collages done later.


spring flow


river of stories


emergence