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Carribian Images... MORE!

Blue Girl 2

Companion piece to the one below...

Third last group i've been working on....

 this is yet unfinished....background too dark...painted on unprimed linen

...yet to come...the encaustics and the Faces of Barbados...

Blue Girl

I have been painting non stop for a few days and will shortly dump my latest work on you for comments...am preparing for a solo show here in March of next year.... but just before I do that...here a painting I have "enlarged", given it more of a frame, to make it part of a larger triptych....
The writing is a transfer from a map of Barbados from the 17th century, the painting is an inset.

Big head - final version?

..the colours are a bit blah here...didn't photograph well...she is called "Island Girl"

new big face, in progress

...this the one that was on the terrace...in a very preliminary stage...the other one went to Gallery of Caribbean Art...will keep you posted...

Big Head - collage on canvas

I have collaged Japanese rice paper, termite eaten, onto canvas....32 x 56"...this is stage one... in stage 2, the next image, I have transferred parts of an old map of Barbados onto the background and added paint.

Chalky Mount Potter

....a mixed media/collage painting, finally finished, got taken to the gallery today for a first airing....he's life size and when the painting was standing in the living room, it looked like someone was sitting there!

I HAVE been painting, but mostly teaching....no time to post...I will need to rectify that!

barbados by car

here is a quick video i shot with my phone from the back seat of Heidi's car.  watch out - it might give you an epileptic fit or a simple headache, so proceed with caution.  

barbados remnince

 here is a scan of my glorious drawing.  note my itchy spots and the rebuttal birds.  also it was creatively drawn upon a piece of scrap packaging. Can you spot the unnamed bajan political leader of note that i drew from a framed photograph on a hospital wall?  Hurray for impromptu sketching to pass the time!

here are some large leaves

Photos.

Sorry guys. I don't mean to rub it in. I hope it brings you warmth instead of resentment. We enter the northern chill again tomorrow.

If you look close salamanders are everywhere.

guess where we are!

Bathsheba paintings

...and in early January, a few days in a beach house in Bathsheba...here some daily exercises... ...playing with texture prompted by the sand and the sea....

Catch up

Yes....so I've been away...first to Bathsheba on the East coast, then to a week of workshops, then organizing the student exhibition....so this has been my life since New Years....

....if you have energy and time, you can check out the photos on facebook ...here the five days of workshop, taught by my friend Ariel Lyons...I just organize....

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150529330097720.394450.602142719&type=1


next the student exhibition a few days later.....

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150548237542720&set=a.10150548219542720.397252.602142719&type=1&theater


...a couple of hundred people, 20 artists....

after seven days of rain...

...a break in the clouds...

out of africa

....this is the painting that evolved out of one of the earlier "faces of today"

faces of clay