'Tis the Season ...

... of the Sphere

Part IV - Painting

Some of the outcomes of an oil painting induction workshop I attended in the autumn:
- exploring marks and texture

- series using 3 elements of our choice (with a degree of 'creativity' in adhering to the rules), in this instance 1) Indian yellow with and without medium, 2) black oil stick, and 3) cadmium red diluted with oil to make dripping consistency

Part III - Plaster (Continued)

With intriguing cavities and interesting projections:

Textures:

And gravity with a twist:

Part III - Plaster

What I have come to refer to as my plasterworks - exploring plaster as a material and playing with the numerous different stages of the curing process. Inspired by/based on 'bringing the spirit of the material to life, letting the material speak. Investigating the possibilities this opens up.
Fostering the revelation of anything arising spontaneously and not be bound by previously predominant forms' as per the '2012' page of my website:

Some of my favourites on that board:

- the very delicate - complete happenstance

 - gravity and chance playing their part

- a haphazard construction; the result of a series of (fairly gentle) forcible propulsions through the air

creating intriguing cavities

Part II - Space (b)

Further exploring 'incorporating space as a positive element'.
Large rudimentary maquette. This is a saddle plane, carved out towards its periphery, with the opposing edges brought together to maximize the curve:

Part II - Space

As per the '2012' page on my website, here is the second part (the posts on the Fragility Spheres constituted the first) of what is seemingly turning out to be the end-of-year survey of my explorations of the past months:

'incorporating space as a positive element ...'

Some of the maquettes that may lead to further exploration and development

Ever Changing, Ever Unfinished - Nature's Chapter

This is a fragment of a very large sculpture I made in the summer (canine intervention - quite unintended and initially quite unwanted - left me with just this piece). I decided to put it in the garden and watch how it evolved exposed to the elements: the next chapter in the story of the plaster form and the plaster material - nature's hand in the process. All part of the overall creative process, offering a completely new and different beauty, inviting a new and different way of viewing and appreciation, going beyond the form and venturing closer into texture, colour differentiations, fractures, ... gravity and chance arranging the debris to work towards an 'installation' ...