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Images posted were selected from the art gallery of Solo Exhibition in October, 2010.
My SoMBA Gallery features art that I LOVE!!

The figure in landscape or space has been a visual challenge, something that I am personally still discovering. This gallery is the fragile and the spiritual, the tender and the acute attempts to capture the essence of humanity.

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In each month’s SoMBA Gallery I am excited to be able to include 2-4 works from my own art.
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The great apes are our closest relatives and somehow this captures it all, and says it all. It is the question about every species right to exist, and the right to roam free. The sepia tone creates the mood and then image of the ape at the open door brilliant contrast of symbols. The preciousness of life.

I’ve stood out alone before,

lights and promenade
there
I was fresh and open

and perhaps not so wise
for here I am linked up to
so many
 of my sorrows

consumed by loneliness

bereft and unhinged
by my schemes

ending in a sorrowful

aching pulsating,
alley of dreams.

LInaji 2010
Danilo’s composition gives me a direct link back to “Don’t dream it’s over” the colour and the isolated white figure of humanity reflecting on the consequences of what they have created. The beautiful decoration on the bodies is like some future evolutionary state and product of a toxic society.
I included Linaji poem here because I really couldn’t find a better way in words.

The journey of self-discovery is inherent in everyone, this image by Peter, has all the nostalgia of old Edinburgh back alley ways, and the searching for that old curiosity. The surfaces and range of ochre, burnt umbers, raw siena creates a matrix that eventually focuses down to the lone blue figure. The blue is perfect a natural complimentary to the surroundings. All the surroundings busy themselves in patterns and rhythmic energy, which pulses up the drain, pipes and echoes in the blue violet windows.

In our crowd world there are times of great loneliness or times when peace and tranquillity are a requirement for spiritual well being. The two-seated figures starkly silhouetted are connected yet separate; they almost echo these two states apart and isolated, together in a moment of shared silence. The fountain of water is time passing and every thought pattern captured in those moments of reflection.

Nurhilal, does in paint what I strive for in my work she can capture in a single brush stroke of colour the spiritual essence of the figure. In this rainbow of colour she manages mark and gesture balancing the whole composition so the tones of the colour create the identity of the singularity. It is almost as if she can see the aura emitted from the figure.

To find the connection and discover the inner person, rain falling, trees shielding, light defusing, the natural colours, and tertiary grey tones creating an intimate moment of a shared experience. The specimen in the woman’s hand unravelling and spiralling up into her face, wonder and fascination, spread out across the whole composition and float around her.

I have to admire the economy of line just enough used to describe the figure and the subtlety of the flesh that hints of the female form, a Venus in the Garden of Earthly Delights. Paint quality understanding of the medium the contrast between gentle and strong, simple and complex, the mystery and magnetism that still make relationships such a puzzle to human-beings.

I love the sense of paint, the use of layers, the passion and strength all the abstract use off line, shape and colour. The visual elements swirl around the figure and are radiating outward to touch with magic and mystery. The Alchemist surrounded by all that empowers her universe.

Although I can remember seeing films of this larger than life character with a raincoat, umbrella and hat, getting into situations that seem to confuse and astound him. Tati seemed to be obsessed with the materialistic westernised world. The layers of paint and collages capture his fractured perception never quite coming to terms with everything; they give us a false sense of our reality.
Tati must have been the inspiration for Peter Sellers Inspector Clouseau and Rowan Atkinson’s Mr.Bean, every they touched or encountered is not in sync with reality. It also hides the identity of the real person, like a defence mechanism.

The searching spirit, the enlightened mind, glimpses pattern and colour each doorway opened with excitement and absolute pleasure. This is an uncomplicated composition, in much the same way as Peter Hammer’s “The Stairs”. The complexity is in the layers and the hints of fragments of time. The light is like a cathedral stain glass window filtering into some lofty spiritual vaulted columned space. The moving figure creates a ripple in time making her off balance and expectant, she is almost turning in anticipation of the next experience.

Sometimes I find a painting that I can enjoy for what it is a steamy hot day in the swimming pool and everything geared to celebrating the day, and the fun and excitement of splashing around in the pool. Brigitte has a wonderful ability to use media and express how she perceives the magic of the moment. The challenge, of painting the water and the distortion of the figure, colour and mark making motivate and enthuse her work. There is clearly a physical and tactile system at work, hand, brush and scratch marks seem to combine to capture the essence of the swimming form.

Reynaldo is fearless in his use of paint; he has the ability to allow us to see his discussions, arguments, and passionate embraces with his subject. The paint at times seems to be in the throes of physical combat and at others it is soft up lifting and gentle. In “Emerging Gemini” I see and artist challenged by his subject and not being afraid to exhibit and reveal all, it is interesting that this is the 8/22 in a series, so the ongoing search for the true twinned identity is a debate that Reynaldo had with his model and media for some time.