NSEW, North South East West

 NSEW

I am writing an article for the Black Mountain College Journal. After Hurricane Helene washed out the roads, buildings and airport the conference I was going to travel to was cancelled. Our consolation is to write our papers for the BMC journal. Along with the article I will include some of these preliminary sketches and  images depicting NSEW. 

Working out the arrow order

Working out the permutations

I worked out in these drawings that with the four selections of North, South, East, West, there would be 24 permutations, and if i made each direction an arrow and then put them consecutively together I would have myself an Anni Albers style image. 

An early version, the permutations are not quite right yet 

Anni Albers with her husband Josef taught first at the Bauhaus. As it closed its doors in 1933 with the rise of antisemitism and intolerance they walked into the newly open door at Black Mountain College, established in 1933 in Ashville North Carolina.  These images are inspired by Anni Albers and American quilt block patterns.

A more resolved pattern sequence 

This sketch moves a step closer to the final image, using half square triangles to construct the arrow images, the permutations flutter and pulse through rotations. 

North South East West: a painting from the collection of Christine Williams. 

Painted in Lapis Lazuli and gold leaf. Part of the family / community/ series of blue and gold paintings I have been making for the past ten years. Each cycle of making/ imagery is getting longer. Three years of Russian Dolls, three years of one Red and White quilt. Three years mourning handkerchiefs. 

In this painting icon techniques are used marrying my love of quilt block patterns, Anni Albers and the use of pattern as a transcendent meditative key to a deeper spiritual experience with visual art. 

Close up on the Icons from Mystery and Magic show

Our Lady of Philemon

Archangel Gabriel

St Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio

Our Lady of the White Rose

Our Lady of the Maltfriscan Community

Our Lady Gate of the Dawn

 

Mystery and Magic Exhibition Private View

 

It was fantastic to welcome friends and family to our two person show. Myself and Jane Gibson enjoyed talking to visitors about the hang and the themes and research behind the works. 

Mystery and Magic Show Prep

 

Shetchbook corner

Preparing the bar for the show at Patrick Studios, Leeds. with thanks to Kate for the wine donation. 

Icons at Patrick Studio

Gabriel Archangel

Our Lady of Lydda

Our Lady of the White Rose

Our Lady Gate of the Dawn

Miracle of the Stars at Night

 

Patrick Studio show

 

I am very pleased to be showing at Patrick Studio, East Street Arts in Leeds with my colleague and good friend Jane Gibson. 

Mystery and Magic and the Bowery Leeds

a mall selectkons of works by me and Jane Gibson for our Mystery and Magic Show at the Bowery, April to July 2024. 
 

Published in Swordplay zine

 Published in Swordplay poetry and visual art zine - Brave

A picture of my maternal grandmother, Mollie (Mary) Procter ne Calvert painted in inks and blackcurrant juice, on cartridge A5. 

Born in 1905 in the North, one of four sisters and a brother. Trained in the Fröbel pedagogy method in London 1920s, danced the Black Bottom with Victor Sylvester at a flappers night club and marred my grandfather Alec Procter when it was the done thing for married women to give up work.  

Our Lady Philermos

Our Lady of the White Rose

Feast of the Triumph of the Cross

 

O Dear White Rose

Our Lady of Maltby.

Our Lady of the Maltfriscans.

Our Lady of the White Rose.

In 1981 Our Lady appeared to a group of teenagers in Maltby South Yorkshire, she gave them a prayer to say in greeting and parting and danger. She asked them to 'Pray always.' The Maltby-Franciscans or Maltfriscan Charismatic Community sprang from this moment in history and time.

O Dear White Rose

Whose petals enfold my heart.

Draw me to the centre of your sweetness.

Jesus.

Amen. 

 

Angels, Saints and Wolves

Archangel Gabriel

Our Lady Gate of the Dawn

Our Lady Full of Grace

St Francis of Assisi and the Wolf of Gubio

These are some of the icons on show at the Open Gallery in Halifax for the Mystery and Magic show in October . 

 

Kreiva Virtual Gallery

 Click to see virtual Gallery at Krieva

This looks fabulous - the virtual gallery at Kreiva, with my two pisnitngs inside - Miracles of the Phases of the Moon & Miracle of the Sky at Night. 

Krieva Catalogue

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Krieva Gallery Blog

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Kreiva Gallery - Miracles and Magic Exhibition

Delighted to be showing at the Kreiva Gallery in Bridlington, one of my favorite East Coast beaches. 

Miracle of the Night Sky

Miracle of the Phases of the Moon

 

Exhibiting at the Open Gallery - Autumn

Excited to be showing the below painting from my monochrome/mourning period.

 

Exhibiting at Redcar Palace

Delighted to be showing an icon painting at Redcar Palace.

 

 

Room I, II, II. Showing in Haus-A Rest online zine. issue 42, Beginnings and Endings

Delighted to be shown in the Online Zine Haus-A-Rest:  https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx-CZsIItIX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Acrylics on cartridge

DESCRIPTION
After my Dad died, I started to use his old study as a studio. But all his things, his 1950s photos of his jazz band, his collection of badges, his book of set lists meant that I became obsessed with his Room.

Room III

MEDIUM
acrylics on cartridge.

DESCRIPTION
I tried to imagine Dad's study detached from the rest of the house, floating in a black void, taken down to the bare-bones of its very roomness. Using Giacometti structure lines that go to infinity, it became translucent, multi dimensional, there but not there. Full of memories yet empty.

Room II

MEDIUM
acrylics on cartridge

DESCRIPTION
My Dad's study. Cramped next to a Victorian wardrobe full of top hats, a cloak which belonged to Jacob Kramer, fans and gloves, I tried to paint, and use the room as an artist studio. the room became a ghost room, a haunted room, I tried to imagine it a white cube but just ended up painting BLACK paintings.