Spring Exhibition 2009.

1. Saturnday.

http://share-my-art.blogspot.com/2008/09/drawing-inspired-by-work-of-charles.html

2. Via Bidirezional.

http://share-my-art.blogspot.com/search?q=textile

3. The Gateway.

http://share-my-art.blogspot.com/search?q=gates

Batley Library and Art Gallery. West Workshire.

Dewsbury Arts Group Sping Exhibition 2009.

Parkland statue sketch.

Parkland statue sketch, unfinished. 2008

I created this sketch one afternoon while one of my friends dozed and the other two completed a lap of the park on roller blades.

To me, the drawing is incomplete.

Rather a snapshot of a statue in context.

He has a book in his hand.

I could add some watercolours.

Moreover, it is completely unfinished.

The park was full of people passing time.

In the sunshine.

It has beautiful gates and fountains and gardens.

It has a museum and cafes and sculptures.

It has joggers, skaters and rollers.

Shirkers, illusionists, musicians, and contortionists.

The tree lined avenue with the perfect gradient was closed for refurbishment.

This time around anyway.

Hail, rain, fall or shine.

The best park in the world.

Let's go around one more time!

Pain of a hero.

Granite slices of tomb

above sunken soldier of doom.

Who could foretell?

The grave of umpteen slain

in action at

Gavrelle April 1917.

Some shocked trees are gnarled

and barely stenciled upon

the evergreen awning

in the fingers of a petrified

Angel Gabriel.

The sheer low arc

of another winter sun

is bronzing the cask

of a wartime paragon.

Twilight bound

the the moon shall light

some letters

to shape an epitaph

to dream another night.

A birdsong soundtrack

is the theme of thy soul.

Captain of a short life.

No more wounds at Gavrelle.

Ring the bell.

I am the vigil

still here today.

I am the flowers

on your memorial causeway.

Projected along this sacred site

are the wings

from your shoulders

in the midst of flight.

Decorated by your country

beloved son.

The honour story

in motion

for what plight

for so long?

And the gates to this pasture

are closing at five.....

Static in this transient hill

I must leave.

I can tell.

May you rest in peace

along this line of rhyme.

Upon your heroic cry

we still dwell.

And the bell

echoes the bell.

Taken

with no sword to defend

pain of a hero.

Slain in action

at Gavrelle.

The Screen on video.

Please watch this 4 minute film of ‘The Screen’ I have created from recycled cardboard and wood.

Dimensions: Height 1.44m: Width 2.44m

The reverse is painted with wood stain, protecting the cardboard and is currently free of any decoration. The screen is made from found objects, decorated by photos and colour prints. It can also be folded together and will free stand in many positions.

It has been decorated on the first panel with images of the gates of Crow Nest Park. On a rare sunny day, I noticed that the shadows made by the gates were unusual and I decided to record them. It is a photo montage of the gate posts taken from left and right vantage points.

Two of the other panels are decorated with images from the local environment creating a sense of place around The Calder and Hebble Navigation. These pictures represent a spring day with no leaves on the trees, I have seen the same trees in summer and the plastic is hidden by foliage.

The 4th panel has an astronomical theme created by the appliqué of found objects on black fabric and pinhole projection photography. Local churches are featured in The Screen, St Thomas’ in Batley and St Mary’s in Mirfield, contrasted by the architectural grandeur of electricity pylons.

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

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.

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.