Another ‘refractionist’ painting. The title takes it’s name from the actual park, Cwmdonkin Park, which is where the poet and composer of words Dylan Thomas walked an displayed as a child and adolescent, maybe imagined and constructed as a young man, and dreamed big dreams. His family home hugged the side of the park, on the steep of the hill running alongside the park. Perhaps he extended his journey to the Uplands Tavern this way or then again, perhaps not!
Category: Painting
Winter Lane
The mix of the vibrant lime green and the greys with the light wispish grey of the sky are meant to provide a frission between more so-called rich vibrant alive colours and those usually associated with being drab, boring, muncipal; to express that heightened feeling of energy and aliveness that one often feels after the rain has gone, when the atmosphere is charged with negative ions, and the grass seems to be luscious and excited. After the beating drabness of the rain, the suffocation of possibility comes the energy, the possibilities, the promise…everything refreshed and ready to move. A friend tells me is is menacing, or broody at least, pregnant with threat (perhaps of more rain), these are some possibilities of how to look at it .
I am delighted to say, and more than
I am delighted to say, and more than a little daunted, to say that the “Artfinder” website has accepted my application to sell art through them. All the work on there is great! I feel like a nervous kid, first day at school.
Find out what others think of my artwork!
Find out what others think of my artwork!.
Winter Lane
The mix of the vibrant lime green and the greys with the light wispish grey of the sky are meant to provide a frission between more so-called rich vibrant alive colours and those usually associated with being drab, boring, muncipal, to express that heightened feeling of energy and aliveness that one often feels after the rain has gone, when the atmosphere is charged with negative ions, and the grass seems to be luscious and excited. After the beating drabness of the rain, the suffocation of possibility comes the energy, the possibilities, the promise…everything refreshed and ready to move. A friend tells me it
is menacing, or broody at least, pregnant with threat (perhaps of more rain) these are some possibilities of how to look at it.
Parting is such sweet sorrow!
Parting is such sweet sorrow!.
FaB Open Prize 2013
Delighted to have my painting accepted
FaB Open Prize 2013 – Bath’s Annual Fringe Visual Arts Festival 2013.
Art Exhibition July 2013
I will be exhibiting for 2-3 weeks in Noah’s Yard, Uplands, Swansea starting on the 23rd July 2013 – this is the opening night and you are all invited to the opening do! Noah has kindly given me his main brick wall to play with so I will be exhibiting at least 12 pieces of artwork for a few weeks. It would be lovely to see you there particularly on the opening night on the 23rd July
Expo Funky
arranging an art exhibition in my front basement room!! Watch this space..!!
Refractionism
Recent Work in progress
