There is a wonderful book called Getting Things Done: How to Achieve Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen, it can be ordered here on Amazon. As you can see I was sorely in need of it this weekend as I started the mamoth task of throwing things out, recyling and organising my office.
Four Square Fine Arts are delighted to have Brendan Jamison's sculptures from suagr cubes in our forthcoming exhibition Genius Loci: A Sense of Place, running from 2nd to 7th July at the Store Street Gallery, 32 Store Street, London WC1E 7BS from 11am - 6pm.
As creator of the 'sugar cube' in the UK, Sir Henry Tate made his fortune in the sugar trade and was a very significant art collector throughout the Victorian era. He bequeathed his art collection to the nation and along with a considerable financial donation established the original Tate gallery in London. Brendan Jamison first explored the idea of carving in sugar during his MA at the University of Ulster nearly 10 years ago. Since then he has won large-scale commissions including one to create a scale version of Tate Modern for the London Festival of Architecture in February 2010. Other large buildings followed including a stunning scale model of Helen's Tower exhibited in the Towner Art Museum in Eastbourne last year in their Compulsive, Obsessive, Repetitive exhibition.
Sonia Stanyard's paintings of cabins evoke a sense of the traditional forest hideaway. Refuge. Cabins have been our shelters at the frontier of nature for centuries all over the world and not least for the pioneers of North America.
Ellen Glasgow, A Pulitzer-Prize winning author, friendly with Thomas Hardy was one of the first naturalist writers. In 1935, Vein of Iron was published to great acclaim, though now out-of-print and much of the description reminds me of the feeling captured in Stanyards paintings.
Within a screen of yellow sycamores, she saw the cabin beside a tiny stream, as bright as quicksilver, which darted over bare rock. Around them, the wilderness closed in, murmurous, myriad-coloured, inscrutable. Above the wilderness and the violet-blue rim of the mountains, the autumn sunset was throbbing...
The wind dropped and died in the valleys; the light thinned and paled over the mountains; the rustling of the leaves, like the stealthy patter of bare feet, sank from a murmur to a sigh and from a sigh into stillness. Only the small hidden lives, the creeping furry shapes, within and without the forest-only the scurrying of mice, the burrowing of moles, the shuffling of toads, the scampering of ground squirrels - had inherited the twilight. With the fainting wind, all the wild earthy scents grew stronger and closer.
We are delighted to be showing Stanyard's work in a number of forthcoming exhibitions as part of the Nature as Mind;Mind as Nature series follwing her solo show in Italy in the Spring..
An empty gallery space in the East End. A blank canvas. I am currently planning a series of exhibitions this year on the theme of Nature as Mind;Mind as Nature, one of which will be a gallery exhibition in Redchurch Street, London E2. With the wave of new discoveries in all branches of science – particularly in particle physics this year with the experiments at the CERN institute to discover the Higgs-Boson particle coming to a conclusion – it feels the right time to allow this to become the main focus for the gallery. These scientific discoveries are revealing an infinitely more complex web of connections and interdependence, a world where we are inextricably linked into the texture of nature and the universe – the circle of life.
There is nothing in nature that is not in us – Naum Gabo
Inspired by my son's art homework for the summer I decided to do a project with my Iphone of taking photographs of shapes in the environment that resembled letters from the alphabet. Not only was it fun, it helped me to look at my surroundings in a new way. It's a project that would be suitable for any age group and any nationality. Here were are from a - z...
Inspired by my son's art homework for the summer I decided to do a project with my Iphone of taking photographs of shapes in the environment that resembled letters from the alphabet. Not only was it fun, it helped me to look at my surroundings in a new way. It's a project that would be suitable for any age group and any nationality. Here were are from a - z...
