I’ve spent this COVID winter going around the neighbourhood taking macros of tree bark and urban debris. In March I started combining them into diptychs, trying to find a commonality between the details of the two very different items. Abstract … Continue reading Natural/Unnatural : Focussing on Details
I have been attempting a new series inspired by my COVID walks through back alleys and deserted park areas by creating a series of diptychs that are a dialogue between the natural (tree bark) and the unnatural (urban decay). I posted … Continue reading A Dialogue Between Natural / Unnatural Textures
Awhile ago the Lens-Artists Challenge was ‘Special Moments’. But in this time of plague the most special moments in my life have been the discovery of a particularly crusty dumpster… …and a magnificent 2-storey 3D abstract gallery in the shape … Continue reading Accidental Art from Dumpsters and Concrete Forms
What with winter there’s not a lot to take photos of, so I’ve been busy with macros of tree bark. It’s been a real voyage of discovery which is somewhat of a miracle considering the times we live in. Although … Continue reading Tree Bark as Inspiration 2
I prefer to travel around the world but right now I’m going for walks around the city, and only to places I can get to without taking transit. The other day I went for a walk up to Shaughnessy, the … Continue reading It’s a Small World (Especially Right Now)
Black & White Abstract. China News stand in Vancouver. An accidental landscape with a frozen lake appears in the black grafitti on a white panel van. (+ Grey). Two black and white abstracts in scratched and broken plaster on … Continue reading Black & White (+ 1) Abstracts from Around the World
Cracked wall with efflorescence. More of Nancy Merrill’s Photo Challenge: Cracked. Continue reading Cracked Wall with Efflorescence Abstracts
I learned a new word/concept this week: Wabi-sabi, the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection. When I googled it I got a lot of images of interior design, all images of simplicity combined with a lot of irregular texture … Continue reading Trying to Work Out the Meaning of Wabi-Sabi
I love it when paint cracks and peels away. Decay is such a thing of beauty. Peeling paint on the ancient door of a Tudor house in Copenhagen, Denmark. Rusty wall with peeling turquoise paint in Penang, Malaysia. A neighbour’s garage and … Continue reading Cracked and Peeling Paint
These two images of rocks from Ireland are from two different places; the first is from Galley Head which had a mass of rocks I want to paint and the second is fractured shale from the Cliffs of Moher, another … Continue reading Textures of Rocks on the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland
