Stratum

Mixed media 21.5x26.5cm

 

Composition in Indigo and Burnt Sienna

Water colour 21.5 x 26.5cm

 

Composition in Burnt Sienna and Blue

Mixed media 21.5 x 26.5cm

 

Composition in blue and orange

Water colour and collage, 26.5x21.5cm

 

The Blueness of Blue

Mixed media on canvas 25x25cm

One of my influences here is the artist: Joseph Cornell. Was also contemplating on the aesthetics of the Bower bird.  Plus blue stands for the ocean, the sky, space.  In Christian iconography blue is the colour of the Virgin: of purity, the immaculate conception but a blue movie is the opposite.  And in jazz the blues is a melancholy, feeling sad.  In Australia if you are a red head then often your nickname is "blue", if you have a fight its a 'blue" and "true blue" is slang for an Australian patriot.  So, it seems that "blueness" covers a multitude of things.  And who knows how the female Bower bird makes her judgement?

 

It was a bright and sunny day

Mixed media on Arches paper 21 x 29.7cm

 

Construction 2

Mixed media on paper 29.7x42cm

 

Construction

Mixed media 40x50cm

 

Chicken and egg

Mixed media on watercolour paper 21.5 x 26.5cm

 

Salt and charcoal

Mixed media 0n Arches paper 29.7x21cm 

 

Plein Tarif

Mixed media 21.5 x 26.5cm

 

Untitled

Mixed media 29.7x21cm

 

The mist is rising

Mixed media on arches paper 21 x 29.7cm

 

Abstract with blue

Mixed media 29.7x21cm

 

Opus

Mixed media 21 x 29.7cm

 

Reprise

Mixed media 21 x 29.7cm

 

Haiku

Mixed media on Arches water colour paper 21 x 29.7cm

 

Recontextualised

Mixed media 15 x 21cm

I found the word 'recontextualised' in this energetic collage to my amusement which gave me the idea for the title.

The piece of print was chosen for its tonality rather than the printed word.  But I like how the act of collage is taking something from one language and converting it to another; in other words: recontexualising.

 

Construct No 2

Mixed media on Arches paper 21 x 15cm

 

Construct No1

Mixed media on Arches paper 21 x 15cm