Studio Work ABOUT my art & others

  I love them - not only to eat, to cook but to draw and paint. Love the shapes and stance their presence bring to 'the table'.  :)  I have been doing them for years, for the reasons above but also by way of exploring colour, texture, design and to play with paint/mark making. A few here from over the years (below).  ink, pastel, oil and acrylic as well as ipad drawings, hockney & warhol inspiration.  Over at the art gallery under the heading PEARS you can find some for sale . let me know what you think .... more pears (available) to be uploaded here  

beginnings. Loving the immediacy of this one ...  tomorrow is the dangerous stage ... fear and fiddling ... i try not to ...  lets see where this goes 

 by Theo Jansen a brand new 18-meter-long  Strandbeest  scuttles across the sands of a beach in The Netherlands in this video by Dutch Artist Theo Jansen, who has been releasing his otherworldly creatures each year since 1990 Throughout the summer, Jansen experimented with connecting several units together, which could work in succession.   Animaris Rex  s a herd of beach animals whose specimens hold each other as defense against storms,” he says. “As individuals, they would simply blow over, but as a group, the chance of surviving a storm would be greater.” Propelled by the wind with a series of large sails, the individual modules move in tandem to form a single entity. taken  from 'thiscollossal'  - a fabulous art 'magazine' that comes to my email regularly.  Colossal is worth a traipse around - be prepared to go down many a rabbit hole. ..... Gina