New Asemic Paintings - 2.2 meters X .85cm, oil/acrylic paint on board

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Bound for Italy

Three paintings to go on exhibition in Italy - if they arrive on time...!

Final Work from The Right of Writing Course - ALL amazing!!!

Ann Marie Nason - 4 paintings and an artists book

Jackie Freer - 4 Paintings and a Book Box

Janina Masojada - 4 paintings and an artists book

Cheryl Penn - 4 paintings and an artists book

The Right of Writing (Cheryl Penn)

The Right of Writing

After a year which was...one of THOSE years, I decided it was time to get going on something I've been really keen to start, my own method of teaching - privately, rather than for an institution. Institution work still continues, but, I SO far prefer a more one--on--very few approach.  To this end I have devised material for a few courses under the general theme Give Me Back My Mo-Jo - Accessing Baseline Creativity. The first module is titled The Right of Writing.  This was planned as a three session course, but the need (and want) of a fourth session has been included.

Ann Marie - Writing (Palette)

In this course we covered various aspects such as the liminal space - that area of creativity which is the space 'between' - the gaps between things we know for certain. It is an anxious space, between what we know and what we don't know, BUT it is the space of question and intersection, involving ambiguity and waiting, but for the artist/person wishing to access creativity, the drama lies there,  I believe.  

Jackie - Writing (Phase 3)

Other discussions include post modern cultural theory where 'why and how and when' writing brings its associated baggage and how the interplay between concept, form, technique and material can multiply an artworks' interest by at least 4X.  Intentions, expression, formats and multitudinous techniques are also discussed in terms of concept - what is best suited to the visual representation the 'artist' is attempting. 

The journey becomes an important aspect to discover creativity (but I'm not giving those secrets away).

Janina - Writing (Phase 3)

Logograms as conceptual vehicles for self,  and other,  close to the bone, mind mapped concepts form a late part of the module beginning with 'self' and the 'shadow'. Cuneiform, Hieroglyphs  and early Sumerian writing examples are good demonstrators of this concept. 

Cheryl - Writing (Phase 3)

Further, we discuss asemic writing, palimpsests, The Medici Effect, mapping, altered realities and the differences between abstract and concrete in terms of writing/concept, the effect of font and.... on and on, but ultimately this is all about critically ordering the flow of communication in art-making

using writing as the cultural point of reference.

Evidence for Trees

What will we do for supper

when do I get time off

climbing trees

and not experiencing

care

the kind I need

not

that

which only you think you know how to give.

We’re coming to get you

is everything ok?

the truth is, you’re in danger

while snow falls

like leaves fall

A monk’s station

but

I never saw it.

I don’t feel discovered

I still have my mind

I understand a basic Truth

woods of words

our bodies don’t matter

you can build a world

(a forest)

but imagine if your

greatest regret could be wiped away -

do you know what it is?

Could you make a frottage?

What would it have been like,

if I had not signed up for loss?

Would it be a simple life?

The two knowing ones wheeled the trolley

realizing what was amiss - you cant just replace people

with perfect

physical geometry

and organized wild fig jungles.

calibration

figure this out

you don’t think I’m real?

Look! my knots

feel my branches -

this always happens

messing with our minds,

when will we trust

when will you KNOW me?

Its my fault I served a shadow

instead of you

don’t make it all about you.

let me see your wrist

is there a machine beneath?

suspension in tears

a lost grip on reality.

There is no time for objective experience

It’s more efficient than you think.

Have we been replaced

consciousness is separate from fear

we will never have to fear losing each other again

I’m securing our future in an arboreal world

when the mind left

the sparks flew

even though she was tied to a trunk.

please stop fighting I cant take the noise

here in my lonely words

which you make fly

all over unsung pages

recycled saplings

this is for your own good

we didn’t want to hurt you

don’t resist us

you will be fine

and when I heard that

I knew I was not.

Derivative of Alphabot

A series of glyphs derived from the collaboration with John Bennett (USA). A large painting, acrylic and oil on board - 2.1m x .85m.

Alphabot - Cheryl Penn and John Bennett

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