Sunlight in the Machine

by Alison on April 26, 2012

I’ve finished the second oil painting in my series that is part of a project I have titled “The Art in the Machine”.

Exploring my interest in how storing experiences and visual memories affects them, I began this series with a photograph of a tree against the sky. From this point, I am making a series of oil paintings created from digital manipulations of the previous painting in the series. Eventually, the process of feedback is leading to an entropy of sunlight into blankness.

I am still working on finishing the full series, linked as they are by a common set of actions and a sense of a journey. You can read more about it in my previous post The Art in the Machine

This is my latest painting, currently titled Sunlight Abstraction II.

Sunlight Abstraction II ~ 50" x 50" oil on canvas

 

Here is a photograph of it in studio, with some of the digital intermediary works next to it…

The painting rests on my car jacks, that I use as easels

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Sunlight Series, continued…

by Alison on March 22, 2012

Six new inks/watercolors from my study of light in trees.

 

Sunlight Series - inks/watercolors

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Sunlight Studies

March 19, 2012

These three paintings from my study series of sunlight are available for $60 each (framed). The frames hang or also stand up (I like them this way, on my bookshelves or sideboard). (shipping/sales tax (if applicable) will be an extra charge). Email me at alison@alisonjardine.com if you are interested. Update: these are sold, but I [...]

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Twitter Art Exhibit 2012, Norway

March 13, 2012

I’ve created this small study of sunlight, from my current series, for the 2012 Twitter Art Exhibit organized by David Sandum. It will raise funds for a women’s refuge center, and will be held at the Moss Public library. Last year, I also participated in this exhibit, which raised funds for the library. This is [...]

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The Art In the Machine

March 9, 2012

The road to completing my latest painting (as yet untitled, and unfinished, on the right) started with a walk in the woods last year, beginning a long process – sometimes taking several years – of realising my expression as an artwork. After the experience, the process begins with a photograph on my iphone or camera. [...]

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No Explanation Necessary

February 26, 2012

Visual art, we are told, should speak for itself. I have been thinking about a post on Facebook by Jerry Saltz, well-known art critic and writer, in which he complains about the tendency to over-explain modern art. I posted in a previous blog post that in my opinion the only visual art that needs explanation [...]

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February 2012 Newsletter

February 13, 2012

  February 2012 Artist Alison Jardine’s Newsletter 500XPO 2012, Dallas Lytle Pressley Gallery, Austin Project 7×7 YouTube & iPad Draw 365 500XPO 2012     I am delighted that my work has been accepted into one of the foremost and most competitive annual juried shows, 500XPO. This year, it was juried by renowned painter Aaron Parazette who Dallas-based readers [...]

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Midnight in the Garden ~ New Painting

February 3, 2012

I’ve finished this latest oil on canvas work, and it is a work that depicts a deconstruction of the night sky through the branches. It expresses also the energy I feel when I take time to gaze, to stop and to wonder.   This painting is part of my PixelNation series.

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Edge of Winter’s New Home

February 1, 2012

I just love it when clients send photographs of my works hanging in their new homes…  

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Anatomy of A Memory ~ New Painting

February 1, 2012

We remember in such indistinct, fluid ways, driven by a desire to relate a personal narrative of experience and belief. Only certain objects in each memory interests us, and it is colored by time. When we store our digital memories on our computers, they also pass through many filters, translations, until they bear only a [...]

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