Summer Exhibition 2007.

Victoria Hall, Dewsbury Town Hall. 7th July to 14th July.

3 were sold at the exhibition in total, one at the preview, one on the Wednesday and one on the final Saturday.
St. Thomas' & the Pylon: Sold.
The Birds are gone: Sold.
Solar Flowered Eclipse: Sold.

The Transept: Presented to Lady Forbes on the ocassion of her 40th birthday.
St. Mary's: Donated to The Parish Centre, St. Mary's Church.

A Unicursal Triquetra.

My unicursal triquetra.

Pencil and ink.

3x vesica pisces.

A symbol of Christianity and the sacred feminine.

I have used tonal shading and cross hatching in the background.

Scanned from my geometry sketchbook.

Galileo.

This image is inspired by the Galileo Mission.

Gravity assist manoeuvre, using the gravity of planets to hitch a ride further out into the SOLAR SYSTEM.

Continuing the theme of spirals.

A Logarithmic Spiral.1

This image is created by drawing 4 Golden Rectangles randomly across a double page in Sketchbook #07.

The logarithmic spirals have unwound, intersecting across each other.

Click on the link to see the spirals of, 'The gates of Crow Nest Park.'

http://share-my-art.blogspot.com/2007/06/gates-of-crow-nest-park1.html

A Logarithmic Spiral.

The Golden Rectangle is the basis for the spiral. When the mathematical code for the rectangle was mapped out (thanks Nikola, we were taken by surprise at the size of the next square!) the spiral began.

Click on the link to view, 'Tsunami.'

http://share-my-art.blogspot.com/2007/06/tsunami.html

Sketchbook.1

These 3 consecutive pages are from Sketchbook #92.

Each page contains a window leading to the next page.

The drawings feature textural and tonal areas based upon architectural form.

Pencil, ink and collage.

Cleckheaton Town Hall.

Pencil drawing of Cleckheaton Town Hall. Sketchbook #93.

Click on the link to see my drawing of 'Milan cathedral.'
http://share-my-art.blogspot.com/2007/06/milan-cathedral.html

The Screen.3

These 3 images feature details from the panels and the spines of The Screen.

A collage of colour prints, the iron gates of Crow Nest Park.

Inspired by a sense of place. The Calder and Hebble Navigation, Ravensthorpe and Thornhill Lees. Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.

The photograph above looks upside down, don't be fooled!

The spire of St' Thomas'. A pencil sketch on the first spine of The Screen.

Both spines are visible in this image.

Architectural Detail.

This drawing comes from Sketchbook #89.

A study of architectural details, London.

Tsunami.

This image is inspired by the Asian tsunami which struck on 26 December 2004.

I was observing the Moon that night with a telescope (thanks Steve). I had to use a lunar filter because the Moon was exceptionally bright, being a full one.

Canvas stretched around a wooden frame, painted with white emulsion, black acrylic and oil pastel.

The Gates of Crow Nest Park.1

The sunlight casts shadows, revealing elongated spirals.

I observed this event taking place last year, one afternoon, I noticed that the shadows made unusual patterns.

I decided to record the event but I had to go home and back to collect a camera.

The Gates of Crow Nest Park.

A photo montage of the gateposts taken from left and right vantage points.

This image creates an almost cubist illusion that the gates are opening.

The River Calder Tree.

A tree growing in the banks of the River Calder.

St. Mary's Church.

A view of St Mary's from across the moor. It had been a cloudy day with a flew glorious breaks at sunset. Check out the pylon on the horizon line.

Click on the link to see 'St. Thomas' & the Pylon.'

http://share-my-art.blogspot.com/2007/06/st-thomas-pylon.html

Sketchbook.

2 pages from a sketchbook made from recycled cardboard and packaging.

The first one features a black & white print of, 'St. Thomas' and the Pylon.'

The second page features a landscape photo taken overseas, 2001 and a wax transfer image of the Sun.

The Screen.2

Here is an image of The Screen as it looks part way through the collage process.

It is being decorated with colour prints and photographs of my artwork. I began collecting and building in November 2006. Nikola helped me join some of the cardboard and wood sections together with glue.

Reflection.

Holy Innocents Parish Church.

Solar Flowered Eclipse.

This image 'happened' one day in my garden.

You could call it a happenstance.

It is a collage of other images, including A Portrait of The Moon and Everybody knows that...

St. Thomas'.

Pencil drawing of St. Thomas' in Batley 2002.

Incomplete and creased, this is a preliminary study for St. 'Thomas' & the Pylon.'

Click on the link to view:

http://share-my-art.blogspot.com/2007/06/st-thomas-pylon.html

Satellite.

Watercolour and ink. 2006

Everybody knows that...

An image of the solar disc on a clear day, projected inside a cardboard box using a pair of binoculars.

Everybody does know that...

During the 17th Century, it was Galileo who developed the use of the telescope, at the expense of his eyesight, pointing his instrument skyward, even at the Sun. In 1660 he happened upon the four largest moons of Jupiter, he collected proof that Copernicus was correct in his theory about the Earth orbiting around the Sun.

Milan Cathedral.

Drawn in pencil this is a copy of the original design of Caesar Caesariano (1521), based upon a series of evenly spaced concentric circles and a modulus of 12 and 7 units, the zodiac and the 7 (known) planets.

I used the modulus to recreate the illustration which I found in a book about geometry by Stephen Skinner.

'Milan Cathedral: The long drawn-out construction of the cathedral saw many changes and many new plans. During the rulership of the Duke Francesco Sforza several artists worked on the building, and both Leonardo da Vinci and Bramante were kept busy working out the proportions of the dome.'

The Screen.1

The Screen is made from recycled cardboard and wood.

I have left 2 sections exposed to reveal the construction.

Dimensions: Height 1.44m Width 2.10m

This equates to approx 3sq.m per side.

This is a photograph of The Screen after is was primed.

The Screen.

The Screen was coated with wood stain to strengthen the cardboard.

After this, it went through many stages of decoration, here is the circle that started the ball rolling.

Teresa is painting a geometric pattern, using emulsion. Easter 2007.

Obscurer.

These images are captured using black out fabric and the pin hole projection method.
I used black material to cover the windows and all light entry points. The studio has a good sunlight aspect, it travels across the space/wall in a reasonable curve. I made a small hole in the fabric near to the window and waited for the sun to arrive.

The best type of conditions are clear but part cloudy, hazy with cloud formations that roll in a moderate wind. This enables the projection to be more interesting than it would be on a cloudless day. Transforming, progressing, steady journey. I was surprised to see some vivid colours in the clouds and the sun.

St. Thomas' & the Pylon.

This image is inspired by St. Thomas' and the grandeur of the pylon.

I created it by layering photo's and paintings.

The magnetism of the Moon and the geometry of gravity.

Astronomical.

Inspired by the many moons of Jupiter.
Found objects, 1sq.m

Applique on black fabric.

The sunlight is falling through the wondow creating the illusion of another dimension within the frame.

Lagoon of Tonight.

This image is created using black and white fabric, acrylic paint, white cotton thread and recycled metal.

An extract from the poem, 'Planet X.'

'Lagoon of tonight, kaleidoscopic voyager, echo aria...'

A Portrait of the Moon.

This image is created using acrylic paint, ink and emulsion on textured fabric.
1sq.m. stretched around a wooden frame.
Inspired by the Moon and the texture of its surface.
Textured by celestial intervention.

The Solar Disc 2005.

Projected inside a cardboard box, the solar disc 2005.

Sunglasses.

Reflection, reflection, reflection.

This is a scanned and enhanced pencil drawing.

The drawing was inspired by a photograph from a magazine.

A window on The World: A temple in suspension.

These 2 images are made up in layers: -

The sky / landscape background is a photograph of Dewsbury Moorland.

The arches of a ruined church in Bristol.

A postcard of underwater divers.

A triptic of wooden frames bound in cotton splashed with ink and emulsion.

The frames are photographed with light showing through from behind them.