Mixed Greens… December 2023
In the new studio with framed tapestry "Carnival Sea Green"
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Often I am listening to Another Green World by Brian Eno. It doesn’t get older or younger — it just remains the magical moment it has always been.
I don’t know why a colour emerges to become a predominant focus but green has done this. Perhaps because I live in an apartment surrounded by trees. My green world.
Green. Serene green. The color of calm. Comfortable, merging, tranquil.
Sydney is rather green. A city of trees of all shapes and sizes- big, small, skinny, chubby- bright green, dark green, grey green, all the greens.
My most recent batch of ceramic vessels are green.
I’ve done a little investigation …. looking for some history of greens in my interiors, textiles and old photographs. Here are some of them. Also noticed... often where there is a lot of green there is a bit of red or pink not far away… natures path.
Glazed in greens... Jesture ceramics from my recent trip to the Potteries in the midlands of England where I work in collaboration with UK brand 1882ltd. Please email for a catalogue of available ceramic works.
Gum tree greens showroom vignette... including a 2.2 meter Ceramic Column and Grey Moon textile artwork from the Jesture series.
Custom printed linen in the Dropcloth design with bespoke coloration. For more information on custom services please get in touch.
Landscape #2, 2014... from my series titled 'Painted Landscape'. Photos manipulated in the printing process to take on a painterly quality.
Certainly I’m attracted to colours that a eucalypt would feel comfortable in. Green greys in warm or cool tones…. depending on the light.
When I lived in New York I would paint all my walls the same colour. Pidgeon by Farrow and Ball.
In Sydney I have taken to Resene Paints. My current favorites are Arrowtown and Stonewall and Pravda.
I love paint… I admire so many painters.
Although I’ve not painted a canvas myself the inner painter has emerged in other ways—- house painter, ceramic glazer and now working with acrylics on paper to create the base patterns for my textile work.
I have certainly tried to make my photos look like paintings. Fudging with the printing process, rephotographing prints in water, ink and dyes.
I’m deeply attracted to the process of transformation.
Cherish, 2012. From the series 'Falling in love at the Institute'. More painterly manipulation in these floral still-lives inspired by Cezanne.
New York studio interior, 2016, with painted canvas backdrops in Farrow and Ball 'Pidgeon'.
Space Plant V6, 2012....scratched 4x5 inch negative with oil pastel.
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Sydney showroom vignette featuring a framed "Spring Greens" Jacquard Textile Artwork from the Jesture series and a bespoke pink checked rug made in collaboration with Tibet Sydney.
A Happy Holiday season to all,
xm