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

BROWN BOXES

LATEST DREAM BOXES

THREE MONTHS LATER

VIRUS VISUALISED

(what colour is yours?)

Three months work on the same theme of visualising my HIV virus has produced these ten studies in preparation for further exploration

EACH PIECE IS ON WHITE CANVAS 50 cm X 40 cm

PREPARATION .....

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

VIRUS

TITLE : VIRUS - 2 small panels (16.5 x 35 cm)
MEDIUM : Acrylic on wood

LEAVES IN CHAOS

REFLECTING AUTUMN LEAF FALL

4 SMALL CANVASES - 20 x 20 cm in ACRYLIC

POSY FOR JOYCE

A HOUSE WARMING PRESENT FOR JOYCE
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
FLOWERS FROM THE IMAGINATION
30 x 40 cm

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