![]() ![]() His memorable quote, “ If it feels like something I have already seen, then it is time to change direction”.Ĭontributed by Cherie Hanson Feb 29, 2020 Interesting sense of time and the value of a work in progress. John Waite’s work is in acrylic on canvas – mostly landscapes. The clean, spare, venue allows the work to be of utmost attention allowing each to speak its truth. Her wonderful strong colourful renderings with so much energy and/or delight in the vibrant colours. Primordial influences and as she says, “microcosm/macrocosm” – evident in the powerful images. Lois Huey Heck has an amazing array of work – 12 to be exact - executed on yupo paper which is a sort of synthetic base – it allows the movement of colour and is slow drying so not confined by time. ![]() ![]() The poem can take on any form, haiku, limerick, sonnet, narrative – you decide. start a conversation with artwork – ask questions, invent a response. The brochure on this show talks about making an Ekphastic poem. He gave an interesting talk about the pieces and the theory about the Ekphrastic Poem. Clean and pure rendition – with an economy of expression. Michael Griffin’s work is gestural pen and ink and wash – bodies and 2 portraits. Buildings, landscapes, people – she doesn’t shy away from any subject and the attention to detail – as is in evidence in, for example, the wrinkles in the clothing of the people in a line up at “The Lunch Counter” and the depth in perspective in the space in the Bedford Mills piece. Liz’s work was compelling and I admire the depth and perspective shown in the landscapes, as well as the facility with which she expressed the floral details. The others had a chance to share their experiences and the making of art. Liz was on holiday in Mexico so wasn’t actually at the opening. Liz Earl, Michael Griffin, John Waite and Lois Huey- Heck. It was called “Ekphrastic Poetry” - which is a Greek expression – meaning giving words to images.įour separate artists have work in this show. Written and contributed by Sandra KesslerĪ lovely/lively art show opened on Saturday – Maat Lake Country Gallery. įrom the Ekphrastic Poen catalogue: words (above) by John Lent, painting (below) by Jude Clarke It’s that you trust the words, like music, by starting out in the earth ground of the body, in the concrete field the body is registering around itself, will move into both the body and that electrical field around it, and by some bizarre circuitry, reach beyond both to that other matrix that is also there, that resists ordinary logic, that rushes the heart and the mind and surprises both, and is as close as we can get to saying what the breath of being is. When you set forth in words like this, it’s not as if you will the words to a final logic so the words become a simulacrum of something-the way a photograph seems to stop time, or a portrait copies part of something. ![]()
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