“It should be something that is happening all at once, that’s inhabiting you, that you are doing and you have one way or another managed to get yourself into that space, and there’s an angel on your shoulder.
That’s how you should make art.
If you are plotting art and trying to make something to get something, you are not in a state of creative innocence. You’re not making art, you’re doing something else.”
motivation
Auction House Alien
in reflection
This couldn’t be any further removed from the experience
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in reflection
A brief June update. Several studies underway as I sort through the subject matter I want to tackle in the new series.
ruiz drawing
process_drawing
I have detected shifts in the palette of my work but I don't care to analyse it - better to just move through and see what comes out the other side.
SL1006 in progress
SL1006 in progress
Scraped back and repainted.
SL1006 in progress
Still Life 0610 (detail)
Next solo show in Melbourne planned for November this year, so blog posts from this point on will be brief. Revisiting the work of several painters including Diebenkorn, Hockney, Auerbach, Dumas and several contemporaries. Key model friends are back from overseas, also three new linens arrived last week..
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Francis Bacon with Lucian Freud
"deepen the game"
in analysis, painting, reflection
When personal and financial sacrifices are being made in order to pursue a path with few certainties and even less security, it is worthwhile questioning your motives and objectives behind making work in the first place. I have no interest in painting as recreational activity..
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