Having finally brought a painting of a third configuration of the sawn cylinders of silver birch on the shelving unit to some form of resolution this very morning and also managed to photograph both it and its as-yet unrecorded predecessor in the dim late-November day’light’, here then are presented the most recent pair of fruits of the studio practice.
The familiar concerns are in evidence, first and foremost that dialogue between the representation of objects and the painting as object, the material fact of the paint itself as applied to the surface, the communication of the act of looking intently and transcribing the results to be presented in physical form. The objects under contemplation are themselves rich in detail and the challenge becomes to capture something of this individually and collectively as well as a more universal ‘thingness’.
'Silver Birch Still Life #2'
oil and graphite on canvas/16 x 20"/November 2018
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'Silver Birch Still Life #3'
oil and graphite on canvas/16 x 20"/November 2018
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