Photo Album Note

Associate Artist with Backlit Gallery Nottingham UK - Go to Google+ Nick Gear button to view the Photo Albums

Saturday 25 February 2012

Next step - combining found materials and annotations...


Based on sketches from my mini notebook I've been looking at using my found charcoal from the woods and combining this with some of the annotations taken with the drawings.


The next stage is to use these back in the map format and see how this works, as I am trying to move on from using the formal shapes of 'Near' and develop something closer to my visual experiences in the woods....


I'll keep you posted on how this goes. 

Wednesday 22 February 2012

Nottingham University Cedric Ford Fine Art Competition Winner 2012




















The image above is of my winning entry into this years University of Nottingham Cedric Ford Fine Art Competition, titled 'Near'.

The two squares are made from bracken and cow parsley stalks with wood particles, charcoal dust and grass applied on top, all collected from my Coxmoor woods walks last year.


This piece along with twelve other winning entries will be exhibited at Nottingham University along with an exhibition catalogue, and I'll post the information for this once it is known. Anyone can go along to have a look so you're all welcome, it will be a great show...

Tuesday 21 February 2012

Annotated Walk (Stepping into the unknown)







The picture shown here is of one of my latest pieces using photographs from around Coxmoor woods and some of the annotations I've made whilst walking.


The quotation down the side is by Henri Federic Amiel and reads...


'Any landscape is a condition of the spirit'

Saturday 11 February 2012

Artists Annotated Book...

Here is one drawing from an annotated notebook which I have just started.


Whilst walking it has been interesting to consider what I take for granted and then to try and see the landscape as if finding it for the first time with explorers eyes, taking notes about the conditions and what I find....