SNAKE

ACRYLIC ON 4 CANVAS PANELS

60 X 80 cm

GALLERY WORKSHOP

ABORIGINAL DREAM PAINTING 

WORKSHOP

BAILEY ALEXANDER GALLERY

26th  NOVEMBER 2015

WORKSHOP ON DREAM PAINTING

Produced at a workshop by members of the Men's Fellowship Group of the Salvation Army in Brighton.

Twelve members worked on the individual 5X7inch panels using acrylic to produce this collaborative piece.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvjafg-nYTI 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2mVOXHdXyc

TISSUE

TISSUE I 

ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 40 X 50 cm

TISSUE II

ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 40 X 50 cm

LATEST RECYCLED BOXES

BROWN BOXES

BLACK BOXES

RECYCLING BOXES

I FOUND A COLLECTION OF DISCARDED WOODEN TOBACCO BOXES IN THE RUBBISH AREA AT HOME AND HAVE USED THEM TO CREATE GIFT BOXES

DREAM BOXES

Painted with motives based on aborigional bream painting in acrylics the boxes are painted inside and out and finished with an "invented" closure made from recycled materials

PREPARATION .....

FIRST IN A SERIES OF PIECES IN PREPARATION FOR A LARGE WORK ON CANVAS

DREAM PAINTING

I have a fascination with the simplicity and complexity of the aboriginal art form known as Dream Painting. The use of simple repetitive mark making to produce literary pictures is almost a lost skill and not even recognised as "art" until relatively lately. The process of creating such work is therapeutic and the control required to maintain colour and tempo in the mark making can be amazingly exhausting.

DREAM PAINTING

A LARGE WORK IN ACRYLIC ON UNSTRETCHED CANVAS - BASED ON A MIXTURE OF POINTILISM AND ABORIGIONAL DREAM PAINTINGS JANUARY 2005