Angles for the photo have a great impact on the tension I'm showing, but I would love to have shown you a video walk around of the sculpture... It sits very tenderly on the side of a rounded boulder and totters ever so slightly as the. wind whistles around it. I could have called this … Continue reading Calling In The Tide – Precarious Stones Rock Art
Not All Is Grey – Precarious Stones Rock Art
It was mid August when I finally rowed my. kayak out to the small island sitting a few hundred yards from my place, the water was low and the shoreline was littered with the best rocks imaginable for building my monuments... only these rocks were all grey and presumably of the same shale... this inspired … Continue reading Not All Is Grey – Precarious Stones Rock Art
A Monument – Precarious Stones Rock Art
Location: Parc Nature du Bois-de-L'ile-Bizard, Qc.
Twelve Noon – Precarious Stones Rock Art
What do you see? What do you feel? Location: Ile Bizars, Quebec
Basalt Deconstruction – Precarious Stones Rock Art
Searching for the perfect stones isn't easy, there is a certain level of trial and error involved. I found the long square stone, much like a paving stone or wall rock, and then needed to see where I could stand it up. I seem to recall trying to use it as a balance with stones … Continue reading Basalt Deconstruction – Precarious Stones Rock Art
Gray Sunshine
I'm always searching for inspirations with my camera in hand... I often capture sights that I have no clue what will develop from them... I only know they feel wonderful to look at and touch some cord inside... this one may become a painting, it may become a new piece of pottery... whatever it inspires, … Continue reading Gray Sunshine
Carving out Inspirations – Starting materials
I found an old set of stone and wood carving tools tied to a chunk of soapstone with a dry elastic band... my mind went right to play and experimentation! I wanted to try and see what I could make out of it. As I was thinking, I decided to stay a process journal for … Continue reading Carving out Inspirations – Starting materials
Creative Blocks – Goya Squares Continued
Quite some time ago, before Covid... my drawing teacher asked us to do what he called Goya Squares. The premise is that he cut of (photocopies) of famous Goya etchings into 1" squares; we were to take between one to three of them, place them on a large white sheet of paper and draw outwards … Continue reading Creative Blocks – Goya Squares Continued
Creative Blocks – Carving out an inspiration
I've been trying to get myself into a creative mood, as you know from my last few postings...One of the ways was to set up some materials for projects to do over my Summer break from teaching. So, I've been scavenging for materials and finding discarded bits and bobs, including this small chink of soapstone … Continue reading Creative Blocks – Carving out an inspiration
Creative Blocks – Grey Sunshine
We can find the most amazing things to see when walking to clear the mind. Concrete has always fascinated me, literally. The greys are almost always warm when dry and they feel both solid and ephemeral at the same time... as if they could be crumbled to dust with an unexpected tap to the right … Continue reading Creative Blocks – Grey Sunshine
The New Renaissance Mindset 