September 21 - November 20, 2012, Leech Gallery

I must upload the measurements of my paintings but this one is quite overbearing. However I made a compositional error when positioning the pot. I had no room to fit the flowers in and in a radical experiment I gave life to the heads of the plants by the way of smily faces. The bottom of the painting is the dark zone where I've shaded accordingly to the top of the painting but it is too vast to make sense of it. I think the bottom half would have benefitted from a reflection and self shadow of the overbearing pot and highlighted the plant heads.

Dinkelsbuhl, RomanticStrasse, Germany

7" X 9"

Superimposed mashup of 16 photographs of friends in our living room.

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oil and bees wax painting

doing self portraits for art, got a little creative.. need to reduce the glow.

The graphic impulse.

My words are carried away...

I talk to the wind,

and the wind does not hear,

and the wind cannot hear...

Sometimes making art is like taking a leap of faith... in this case it's having faith in my materials: a largish canvas, a limited pallet of acrylic paints, some well loved brushes, water and varnish... throw them altogether with time and patience... the technique on this and most of my newer work is a longer process of building-up very thin and often watery layers... allowing the paint to flow as it wants and then loving the natural movements in the work. I really enjoyed making this one!

I was living in Australia when Brett Whiteley died and was thinking of him when I tried to come up with a name for this yarn.

223 yds aran weight merino wool

4 skeins available

Almost the Jackson Pollack of tagged walls.

From my garden. We don´t really have low temp in winter but just a few days ago we were hit by a freezing front, that actually killed all this!

20" x 16"

acrylic on canvas board

Acrylic paint, textured acrylic undercoat & oil pastle on canvas. Summer 2011.

In my current A2 work, for my coursework I am exploring the question "how do artists use colour expressively in portraits?" This piece has been inspired by the German expressionist artist Kathe Kollwitz, who did artwork based on the holocaust, therefore her work reflects emotion through colour. So I photographed my friend, using black and white filters to reflect sorrow. I then used charcoal and chalk to draw her. Whereas the bright, messy colours in the background are inspired by modern artists Lionel Smit and Andrew Salgado.

A truly tail-ented artist, Beaufere works in acrylics and draws his inspiration from dog food. When a favorite brand puts him in a good mood, his waggish sense of fun creates these marvelous canvases.