“If I don’t have red, I use blue.”

Big painting in progress. It might look like travesty or parody, like a joke on behalf of the grand tradition of still life, but I can assure you: it’s not! This is simply where my art wants to go when it’s free to choose its own way …

Back to Tal R

still very fascinated & amused by the work and thoughts of Tal R

A year of documenting mornings –

Turning the year’s half-way point, I decided (against better judgement) to start a new project. My tutor tells me it’s unrealizable, too rigid, impossible to carry through. For better or worse I take his words as a challenge … this is what I do: Every morning I start my day of making with a simple…

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Tal R, again

It never struck me before, but of course there are strong art brut affinities in the art of  Tal R.   “I think entering my work feels a bit like entering a Luna Park. There’s the roller-coaster, there are shooting galleries, and of course the candy floss van. There are all these different tents with…

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Aspirations

… well, not necessarily to be ironing someones shirt…, but to one day be able to make a drawing as simple and perfect as this – Jean Dubuffet was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, best known for his development of the term art brut. This is what MoMA says about him: Jean Dubuffet’s work…

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