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Luc Tuymans at the Dallas Museum of Art :: A Visit

August 9, 2010

Taking photographs of television screens is hardly a new idea. For Luc Tuymans, however, his paintings – styled like paintings of photographs of screens – are a symbol of our dislocation from real events, an contradiction between our sense of ‘knowing’ through media, in how we all feel our closeness to the celebrities and leaders [...]

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Progress Report – Flesh & Bones

June 1, 2010

I enjoy working on short, one or two day paintings, during the creation of my works that can take many months. As well as making sure I have plenty to work on while layers are drying, they are also a great outlet for my natural drive to create. I don’t cope well if I am [...]

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Progress Report

June 1, 2010

A new work, a portrait in oils of my daughter. In this afternoon session, I established much of the white on dark composition. Tomorrow, I will add touches of color, both in the face and background. The next layers in my new painting in my Geometric Trees series have been applied. Many more to go! [...]

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Works In Progress – My Blue Period

May 27, 2010

The night draws me in, and my works are reflecting this. Three new works are emerging from the subtle tones found just after the sun sets, and before it rises. The motif of the tree provides the structure that is both a compositional element, and a symbolic one. Few things in the human psyche represent [...]

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Me, Myself and 200 school children

October 29, 2009

One thing in particular I appreciate about the Dallas Museum of Art is how often ~ and creatively ~ they change their exhibitions. Today, I decided to spend a few hours there with my notebook, to refuel my creative juices. It is always a particular delight to visit on my own, when I have no [...]

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Artifice

July 8, 2009

I sketched in pastels as the sun came up today, in my back yard. There’s a particular view that has inspired me, and is now churning around in my head. I will stretch and prepare a canvas for it, today, and work on it alongside my current series. It is related in it is all [...]

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Circulation of the Body & Soul

June 5, 2009

Broadway Boogie Woogie Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872-1944) 1942-43. Oil on canvas, 50 x 50″ This painting by Mondrian was a huge influence on my evolution of my image (right), Trees Squared. The use of squares to create movement, the pulsing life, and the the varied colors all found their way undulating through my subconscious as [...]

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Blue Skies Shining On Me…

June 4, 2009

Blue Skies (c) 2009 Alison Jardine. 30″ x 42″, oil on canvas I am so happy to have completed this sunny, uplifting abstract work! It is a view of the sky through the branches of trees in the sunshine. The composition was inspired by the Japan-inspired textiles of the Art Nouveau period, and the rich [...]

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Worldly Goods

May 5, 2009

If we are creating art, are we creating it for other people? Do we find ourselves modifying what we do to ‘sell’, like producing a reality TV show, rather than scripted drama, because it’s easier? Lisa Jardine in her book “Worldly Goods” argues that this has been going on since there was a market to [...]

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Energy & Art

April 25, 2009

I am so excited by my painting, right now. So much that I’ve been working to improve has consolidated. This feeling is rare for me. I am self-critical to the point of harshness, and I aspire to mastery. A mastery I feel is within my grasp, with a lifetime of study. I have been furiously copying [...]

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