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Painted Pallets: Water-colour and sometimes gouache white, developed from the sheets of cartridge I kept beside me when painting figurative water-colours for testing colour, marks etc. Completed June 2020. Pyscho-Painting One Paintings created from drips and dribbles of uncoloured water … Continue reading
Psycho-painting and what you see in it
Psycho-Painting slideshow “Look at walls splashed with a number of stains, or stones of various mixed colours. If you have to invent some scene, you can see there resemblances to a number of landscapes, adorned with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, … Continue reading
Posted in art, Essays
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Clement Greenberg, Henri Michaux, Jackson Pollock, Leonardo da Vinci, psycho-art, Wollheim
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Tango Valley
x SIGRID x In your wake, the air Will fill itself in; The air you imagine Is water, water x You may move to, Keeping abreast of it, Riding it with ease; Wading through x What surrounds you, The air … Continue reading
Posted in art, Dance, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged Sigrid Van Tilbeurgh and Murat Erdemsel, Tango, Tango Valley, water movement
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Meandering through La Belle Epoque
Vuillard Interior Two contributions have come out at the same time (essay and poems). SO – here is my new essay in the Fortnightly Review It’s a celebration of a time that is an inspiration to me. AND – please … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna de Noailles, Degas, Forain, J-K Huysmans, La Belle Epoque, Manet, Vuillard
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Earthquakes and Milkshakes
As there is to everything, There is a fitness to grandad Fleeing a delighted boy. Miniscule petlets of alyssum Compliment overweight orchids. Condos trump the ancient bay. x Drums of stone stacked One by one on top Of each other, … Continue reading
J-L Forain’s take on Verlaine’s Poem
THE LOVER OF NATURE x Paris being not a spit Worth spittin, I am gonna split. But ‘ow my soul’s a poet’s innit, Sundays when me gaff I quit, The country’s bout as cool as shit. x The overland’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged J-K Huysmans, J-L Forain, Paul Verlaine, poetry, Rimbaud, watercolor
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Painted Pallets, June 2020.
80 79 78 77 76 75 74 73 72 71 70 69 68 67 66 65 64 63 62 61 Painted pallets 41-60 (May 2020) Painted pallets 21-40 (April 2020) Painted pallets 1-20 (March 2020) This brings my sequence of … Continue reading
Joris-Karl Huysmans on Modern Art
One of my favourite authors! His views on Modern Art are at last translated by Brendan King (Dedalus, 2020). Tim Keane has an excellent article about this in Hyperallergic – a very good art site. And I also review Brendan … Continue reading
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Tagged decadence, Dedalus, Hyperallergic, Joris-Karl Huysmans, modern art
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Painted Pallets, May 2020…
60 59 58 57 56 55 54 53 52 51 50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 Continuation of my painted pallets – the sheets of cartridge paper I use to test brush loads and marks when … Continue reading
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Tagged abstract watercolours, art in isolation, painted pallets, watercolour
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Write where we are now
Pleased to see two more poems of mine in Write where we are Now Carol Ann Duffy’s initiative with Manchester University, during lock-down. They have used four. I must say, I am encouraged! My thanks to all involved. Scroll down … Continue reading