2013

The things that inspire for 2013 clay white black process visible process process visible material respect honour material otherwise why work with it the spiral the sphere delicate fragile inner space grouping spaces between light and dark light and shade plaster texture gravity delicate chance interact with chance enjoy chance invite chance beware of artifice fine balance fine line clay black white coils spheres figures of 8 extending from spheres Merete Rasmussen Grégoire Scalabre Anne Marie Laureys Edmund de Waal throwing pots that feeling when you're pushing out the clay with your thumb to form the wall the side and pulling up the clay between your fingers what a feeling! delightful bliss Japanese pottery simplicity imperfection imperfect because beyond perfection is destruction can objects hold memories today's obsession with objects objects have a story a life your material has a life your art-works have a life a story of importance painting colour blue sky our Blue Planet Planet Earth space infinity black cosmos white purity clarity minimal light raw umber earth monochrome paint thick and thin Einstein on the Beach pushing the boundaries finding the essence finding the essence to push the boundaries Philip Glass Arvo Pärt music inspires work work inspired by music re-awakening our connection with the cosmos Mevlana Dervishes whirling the spiral contraction expansion right-handed spiral left-handed spiral descending ascending clockwise anti-clockwise expansion contraction we are part of the cosmos survivre la difficulté d' être the human condition la condition humaine the fragility of life that moment that split second when a person's life changes for ever I'm interested in that moment fragility of life l' élégance du hérisson what is life what is art survivre la difficulté d' être what is art Muriel Barbery Edmumd de Waal Bernard Leach truth to materials Abstract Non-objective Concrete Minimal