Balla, a sketch study for a new animated drawing
I've got a few sketches of work in progress to share here. These are early days sketches of a new process I'm developing, partially although not entirely in response to the RWA's Paper Work Biennial. I wanted to revert back to using graphite and pencil as the basis for a study, which I pretty much always do, but instead of abandoning that work at what I might call the 'fag packet' stage, I wanted to push through and complete a fully realised drawing as a more complex understudy for a new work, Balla.
Binomial / work in progress
I’ve been working on a new geometry, and therefore to some extent a new series of images. I’m working with the title Binomial, not sure if that’s where I’m going to stick, probably not I suspect, but we’ll see.
In this first phase it’s been an engaging look at how best to pack a set of spheres into a toroid, a mathematical puzzle that you might think would have been broadly resolved by now, but in fact I haven’t been able to find very much about the geometry and its potential online at all.
There’s an interesting payoff between the number of spheres you want to use, the way they sit together, and the patterns they create in the larger whole, in some ways rather similar to the way seeds are packed into a seedhead in nature.
Two new colour studies for a client in Bristol
I’ve been working on two new colour studies for a client here in Bristol. It’s always interesting to revisit a drawing and spend some time exploring new possibilities.
The framed editions, from my Wave series, will hang as a pair in a spectacular living room. I’ll look forward to having some images of them framed and installed, hopefully quite soon.
Coombe Gallery, Winter Show
Thought I’d post this shot from Mark Riley’s always fabulous Coombe Gallery in Dartmouth. They’re featuring my Cal R piece in the window as part of their Winter group show…