Break down the old and usher in the new!
The Rabbit horoscope 2021 predicts that the year 2021 brings passion, warmth, love, joy of life, as well as the desire to create and do what pleases them.More ambitious than usual, you will stop taking refuge in secondary roles and you will dare to call more attention to yourself. Your efforts will be rewarded right from the beginning of the Chinese Year 2021.
"Open Heart, Open Mind", A5 sketchbook, ink, gouache, aquarelle sticks, pigment sticks
Exploring the line and freedoms of choices
"Nostalgia", 24x24", acrylic on canvas, 6 paintings
Welcome to the virtual show on my 2021 series of 6 abstract paintings called “Nostalgia”. 24x24”, acrylic on canvas. Dedicated to my unexpected living in unexpected countries - France, Monaco and England. To me it’s about vibes and motion and colours. This was my experience of motion through these places and I was trying to capture the vibe of them, what it meant to me, the colours that I remember these places by.
“Untitled for now”, acrylic paint on linen canvas with transparent primer.
There is nothing not special about this painting for me. But I will leave the story out for now. It’s painting that turned itself into a portrait quite magically. I am very happy with all the circumstances of it💥it was for a person but became all about that person. I realised that person is everything for everyone.
Thank you to @derivanmatisse for stunning paints. The centre blue is called Australian Sky Blue. I have used it quite a few times in the past and always loved it 💙 stunning cadmiums too 🧡
Pastel works on pastel on Italian and British pastel paper, exploring lines and colours, zen style, no thinking, making decisions quickly and with the energy of flow and the line and marks
“The Slave Ship” or “Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon is Coming”, after Turner, pastel on primed watercolour paper.
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The painting and its historical background really moved me. You can find the whole story in Wikipedia under The Slave Ship. “In 1781, the captain of a slave ship inbound to Jamaica, the Zong, had ordered 132 slaves to be thrown overboard when drinking water was running low so that insurance payments could be collected; slaves who died of natural causes were not covered by insurance.”
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Pastels to me have been a means to study the maters paintings techniques in oil. Have a good range in pastel allows to just study and flow with the colour. What has been amazing to me is the questions that pop up, what’s going on and why such choices of colours, and the fact that basically the painting is highly abstract in nature. And this is where it’s beauty lies. Typhoon drama as an omen of retribution for despicable crimes of human trade. The dark lines of bodies and hands emerging from water, the fish eating the human leg. Drama and effect - brilliant portrayal by Turner of history. He was an incredible illustrator capturing the emotion while not being politically active. How this story echoes the current enslavement of the entire world for the sake of another kind of “insurance”. Retribution is certain to come to those guilty. But more importantly typhoon will clear the atmosphere and the change is coming. Thank you Turner
My first artwork of the year, I am in London, what to do. It has to be Turner. ⚓️♥️
“The Fighting Temeraire - After Turner”, pastel sketch A3 on watercolour paper primed with acrylic and gesso.
The painting depicts the 98-gun HMS Temeraire, one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a role in the Battle of Trafalgar, being towed up the Thames by a paddle-wheel steam tug in 1838, towards its final berth in Rotherhithe to be broken up for scrap.The painting hangs in the National Gallery, London, having been bequeathed to the nation by the artist in 1851. In a poll organised by BBC Radio 4's Today programme in 2005, it was voted the nation's favourite painting.
Up close and personal⚓️ This painting came about as a discussion with a friend on the love for Turner. I said I will express a Turner, which one. It ended up this national treasure of UK. The old sail ship will be towed away by a stem tug and permanently broken down. The death of the old era, the old world, and the coming of the industrial revolution with all its pollution and strife. We are on the brink of a new world too at this moment. What it will end up being like I don’t know, but I hope for a positive change for the whole planet. Everything is impermanent. “Time keeps on slipping slipping into the future....”🚢
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