Tag: Contemporary Ink Painting
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Should Artists Explain Their Own Work?
A conversation with a fellow painter raises a question: does explaining my work reveal too much, or can a few words open another way of looking?
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Abstract Landscape Paintings: The Big Bang Series
A painterly big bang: light, colour and form finding their place. Notes from 2021 on a small series of unfinished abstract landscapes.
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Portrait and Figure Drawings: A Retrospective
A look back at portraits and figure studies: the sitter’s expectations, the influence of Chinese painting, and experiments in drawing with my eyes closed.
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Remembering a Landscape: Yin and Yang in Ink Painting
A simple landscape composition returns in paintings made over some thirty years. Earlier ink works and digital filmstrip experiments bring memory into the picture.
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Window with Shutters: An Ink Painting on Isolation
A window in an old country house becomes a way to think about protection, unseen threats and withdrawal. A painting from my 2021 Covid-19 series.
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Out of the Blues into the Blue: A Painting on Isolation
A figure leaves a cave for the blue of sea and sky. A short reflection on symbolism, confinement and release in my Covid-19 series.
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Landscapes by the Water and in the Mountains
A quiet landscape by the water and a mountain monastery: two paintings shaped by music, a visit to Cyprus and the news I was following in 2021.
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A Painting Inspired by Bertolt Brecht’s “Reminiscence of Marie A.”
Brecht’s “Reminiscence of Marie A.” becomes the starting point for a painting about clouds, memory and impermanence—and the question of when to stop painting.
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Triptych: Theme and Variations
Three abstract paintings develop a theme through changing colour, movement and rhythm, with music as a companion to the painting process.
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State of the Art: A Self-Portrait Series
A selection from my State of the Art self-portraits, from 1977 to 2021, with memories of earlier work, friendships and the pandemic years.
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Why I Practice Painted Calligraphy
Three reasons I return to Chinese calligraphy: its demands, the measure it gives of my development, and the path it opens from figurative painting to abstraction.
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Power, Elegance and Savageness: New Abstract Works
Three abstract paintings return to a persistent question: how can force, elegance and savageness coexist without beauty becoming mere prettiness?
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Gestural Painting: A Step Further
Can an abstract painting stir a particular feeling? New gestural works bring Chinese calligraphic structure into conversation with psychology and emotion.
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Gestural Painting, Subconsciousness and Archetypes
A new beginning in abstraction brings Chinese painting theory into conversation with subconscious associations, archetypal images and the responses of viewers.
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Almost Thrown Away: A “Scared Girl” — A Painting Saved from the Trash
A portrait from 1988, set aside because it did not fit a series, becomes worth another look many years later.
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A Painting Inspired by Brecht’s “If Sharks Were People”
Two blossom-like forms with pointed black projections accompany a painted homage to Bertolt Brecht and his story If Sharks Were People.
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Burning Down the Snow: A Surrealist Painting
A phrase, a song and an uncertain landscape: how Burning Down the Snow brings surrealist associations into an abstract painting.
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White, Black, Red: The Power of Empty Space
White comes first in the title for a reason. A closer look at the unpainted spaces that shape an abstract painting in black and red.
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Triptych “Mountain”: The Finished Series
The completed Mountain triptych brings three abstract works together, with mountains, caves and the Chinese character 山 as points of reference.
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Paint Away Pain: Creating an Abstract Painting
Painting and Schubert sonatas distracted me on a painful day. A partly abandoned sheet became an abstract work whose colours and construction surprised me.
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A Couple of New Works: Contemporary Ink Paintings
Four new sheets move between strong red-and-black forms, pink brushwork and a playful inscription that questions our search for deeper meaning.
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A Couple of New Works in Gestural Abstraction
Six ink paintings continue my gestural series, moving between separate brush forms and dense clusters in black, green, ochre and orange.
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Recent Work: Day 7/7 — Autumn in My Garden
An abstract garden in red, magenta and pale green closes this seven-day presentation, with an open question about whether to continue in this direction.
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Recent Work: Day 5/7 — A Homage to Max Ernst
Almost fifty years after discovering the Surrealists, I return to Max Ernst in a homage shaped by remembered images, dark brush forms and uncertain creatures.
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Recent Work: Day 4/7 — Gestural Calligraphy
Three works exploring the space between writing and painting: gestural forms suggest characters, folded ribbons and objects that change as we look.
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A Few Rays of Sunshine for Your Weekend
A woodland picture painted after a walk through the Vienna Woods and a rediscovery of Der Blaue Reiter, with blue-green trunks and warm orange light.