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A sneaky peak of some of the work we have created for Wednesday’s show: The Owls Are Not What They Seem :o)
My piece ‘After the Event’, is displayed as part of the exhibition Art Now 2, in the Bohemia Space in MelloMello Liverpool. The exhibition is on now and runs until 16th June (10am - 11pm). It is part of the Liverpool Art Month, which runs throughout May. I also have another exhibition for the Art Month called ‘The Owls Are Not What They Seem’ with Amanda Jones and Sarah Jones in Red Wire - more details to follow :o)
A short and strange video showing the creation of a recent painting I did.
PART TWO
A series of images taken with 120 Kodak Tri-X 400 in a Diana F+ camera. The theme was locations in Liverpool relating to maritime and textile history.
The Locations:
St Nicholas Church
Stanley Dock
Great George St
The White Star Line Building
PART ONE
A series of images taken with 120 Kodak Tri-X 400 in a Diana F+ camera. The theme was locations in Liverpool relating to maritime and textile history.
The locations:
The Chinatown arch
The Cunard Building
A drinking fountain on the road going towards Stanley Dock
St. James Gardens below the Anglican where many sailors were buried
John “Chip” Scarlett is an award-winning underwater still photographer. First certified as a diver 45 years ago, Chip and his wife Susan have dived extensively in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Chip’s work, including both covers and portfolios, has appeared in Ocean Realm, Nature’s Best Magazine, Outside, Fathoms, Scuba Diver, Australasian Scuba Diver, Dive Adventure and has been featured in several compendia of underwater images. He has been exhibited at the British Underwater Image Festival in Birmingham, Asian Dive Expo (ADEX) in Singapore, the Environmental Photography Invitational gallery show in Seattle, and the Festival Mondial de l’Image Sous Marine in Antibes. He is also active in shark conservation with several organizations.
Nebraska Painting Series
This latest series of paintings have been done in oils which is a departure from my previous all acrylic work. I have gone back to landscapes, a subject that featured heavily in my early photography.
The work is relatively bleak and desolate and focuses on conveying a sense of unease unease. In each case the implication is that something terrible has either occurred or is about to occur; these acts are unknown but the atmosphere harbours the suggestions that two or more people were/will be involved.
All of the paintings are suspended in a seemingly unfinished state indicating the hazy unclear nature of the subject matter.
The first in the series, Badlands (2011, oil on canvas, 42in x 32in or 102cm x 82cm approx.) is a vast landscape based on photos (but not copied from in any way) I have seen of Nebraska. Having never been to Nebraska, these are interpretations I make of the landscape based on images and my own imagining. The result is a landscape that doesn’t truly exist anywhere in reality but presents a distorted version of a real place where things may or may not be happening.
Farmhouse (2011/2012, oil on canvas, 35in x 28in or 89cm x 71cm approx.) was second in the series. The farmhouse in question also doesn’t exist outside of this image but occupies a metaphysical space on the Badlands landscape.
After the Event (2012, oil on canvas, 30in x 40in or 76cm x 101cm approx.) is a work in progress (but near completion) and is a room within the farmhouse of the previous painting. The Nebraska series of paintings is a made up of sub-series such as this grouping of three. Together they form a narrative but each can be viewed in isolation also.
If you are interested in purchasing or showing any of these paintings please contact us at beatcityimages@gmail.com for information about pricing or to discuss exhibiting the work in your gallery/exhibition space.
