I always wondered where the trains were going?
April 30, 2010
this is actually a mixed media painting by Julian Schnabell of the man himself, Dennis Hopper, love him or hate him he is an icon of the 60′s and he is about to have a retrospective exhibition of his photography and paintings at MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in July. Conceived only a couple of months ago by the new museum director Jeffrey Deich and curated by Julian Schnabell, they both admit the speed in which this has come together is in part due to the fact that Dennis Hopper has been diagnosed with terminal Prostrate Cancer and before it became to incapacitating he wanted Dennis to be able to choose the pieces he most wanted to exhibit.
In a recent interview he opened it with ““I decided recently, that I am just a middle class farm boy from Dodge City, Kansas…I just always wondered where the trains were going.” coming from a man who is now 73 it made me smile………… far from the motorcycle man in Easy Rider, that I have to admit seeing when It first came out in the 60′s…….
Entwined, enmeshed, tied up in knots
April 28, 2010
Not sure where these feeling come from today, but wherever they came from they spurred me to translate them into creating these works. Maybe its my head, all the ideas, could be lots of mixed emotions all vying for attention. That feeling of spaghetti, everything enmeshed together, cant untangle into tangible threads…………… Good job I had them I think because I like the results, what do you think?
Murky depths
April 27, 2010
Sometimes decisions are hard to make, but in the main I make them quickly, guess its running my own business. But something I find really hard is waiting for someone to make a decision, You want an answer but you don’t want to sound too pushy, for me this is the worse scenario because it challenges my need for ‘control”. I am better at it now, but it still flags up my ”need to know” everything scenario and need it right now. Sure this comes out of childhood feelings of no control, so I have spent the most part of my life striving for Control and latterly trying to let go and have NO CONTROL……….. can be exhausting sometimes, but try and and just let everything unfold. The awful thing is that it can make me very unforgiving of others…………
so beautiful
April 27, 2010
Daphne Guinness for Com De Garcon – perfume Mnemosyne
Bro shoots the runners
April 27, 2010
Steve is my brother, and all this happened right outside my front door !!
so cool
April 26, 2010
What an amazing video, so much work must have gone into this…………..
weekend pictorial
April 26, 2010
is this the one? I think it is
April 20, 2010
After much deliberation, I think I have chosen this image for my kitchen wall…………..
Its going to be 3.2m high x 3.8m wide, very large, but oh so magnificent. I don’t want to go for your stereotypical foody, flower image that kitchens usually suffer from, but something magical and I suppose a talking point. With white gloss kitchen and plenty of colourful ceramics on my open shelves I think I am going to love it.
Resting my brain
April 18, 2010
The weekend has been full, my head has been full, but now I am giving it a rest…………
I awoke on Saturday morning with a real sense excitement, like a “fizzing” feeling going on inside, and tingly, needing to create something. My mind seems to go into overdrive and images, colours, thoughts, past journeys, magazine clips, feelings I want to portray, all manner of ideas swirl around like an “eddy” in a stream. Its as if they get caught, I hold onto them for fear of them flowing away from me, but as they spin the ideas gather and the vortex gets bigger, I cannot express my ideas fast enough and as soon as they are on paper more and more are building……… its exhuasting and my head begins to feel engorged with heat and flickering images until I cant take anymore.
So I have stopped now, paper and perncils, illustrator and laptop are about to be put to bed and I am going to go to bed and rest my weary head. For tomorrow I am designing, huge spaces, so exciting.
The image is trying to portray how I feel when the brain is in abundant mode, creativity is pulsating and courses through my veins. (mixed media)
Quatro Nana
April 16, 2010
Nike de Saint Phalle
Nana Sante
April 16, 2010
Niki de Saint Phalle – Nana Sante
amazing Tuscan garden – Niki de Saint Phalle
April 15, 2010
A true Hero’s Journey……………………
Little old me
April 12, 2010
Little old me at Mitchell’s Fold, shopshire, taken by Yao http://www.flickr.com/photos/36583577@N06/
The Bronze Age stone circle here is far from complete, I read there may have been up to 60 stones altogether. The tallest stone stands a the south eastern side of the major axis of the circle, in line with the rising moon………….. What a setting, so beautiful and expansive. It was a cold and very windy day but oh so very exhillerating. However when back in the car all our ears were really painful as they began to warm up!!
At this size I look like one of the stones !!
funky fungi
April 12, 2010
Reciting the Shropshire Lad
April 11, 2010
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When I was one-and-twenty
- I heard a wise man say,
“Give crowns and pounds and guineas
- But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
- But keep your fancy free.”
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.When I was one-and-twenty
- I heard him say again,
“The heart out of the bosom
- Was never given in vain;
‘Tis paid with sighs a plenty
- And sold for endless rue.”
And I am two-and-twenty
- And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.
- A E HOUSEMAN.
The rolling green hills, the views from Mitchells Fold, Shropshire is inspriring, as are the poems, 60 odd in all written by A E Houseamn at the end of the 19th century.
I was fortunate enough to spend magical times there over the Easter Weekend. My pictorial memories
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