Category: Experimental

Lydia Rink Art Mixed Media Festival

I have been participating in this: 10 artists’ lessons and a Facebook page to show my results. Not everyone who was signed up posted their work which was a shame as it was nice to see what other people made of the demos. Here are the pieces I posted which I did in my A4 concertina sketchbook to keep them in one place. One demo was intended to be folded into a minibook and another was to make a triptych but otherwise it was okay done this size and the paper of the book is surprisingly resilient to gesso, ink, glue etc.

Not waving

A weird sea picture with references to Gauguin and Stevie Smith
Not waving

I love this gloomy piece which evolved under my eyes. My visual memory was jerked by the beginnings of the hunched up figure and I found the image I recalled in a book about Gauguin (hero!) with a photo of a Peruvian mummy. I have always loved the poem by Stevie Smith  – hence the title.

Maybe all the horrifying stories of drownings in the Mediterranean influenced me as well. We can never know all the subconscious themes.

Image 10×8 inches (25.5×20 cm).

Kids’ Art Week!

Thank you, Carla, for another free Kids’ Art Week! (Last year’s lessons are still available here.)

I’m posting my efforts here this time:

a Dubuffet figure a la Carla Sonheim
after Dubuffet

 

after Hundertwasser a la Carla Sonheim
after Hundertwasser

 

Klee a la Carla Sonheim
after Klee

 

Motherwell a la Carla Sonheim
after Motherwell 1

after Motherwell

 

Picasso dog a la Carla Sonheim
after Picasso

Go, Picasso dog!

 

 

 

‘Brave’ surprises for the tutor!

Pip Harrison (my co-author on the fairy tales) and I went to a workshop led by Jane Moran at Pallant House (Plait-Weave-Play). Here are our creations.

a woven structure representing a lion mask
Lion in wait

 

a woven structure of a head which has morphed into a spider
Demented spider

 

Pip also made a ‘Useful Pot to Keep [very light] Things In’ – maybe dreams…

tub with corners woven from strips of paper
a Useful Pot

Maybe it’s a pobble

found images outlined - creatures and weird feet
Maybe it’s a pobble

Now, come on! Which of you ate those toes?

Another weird fantasy set of creatures pulled out of random marks.

Don’t cry frog…

…it’s only a bit of fun!

Don't cry frog
Don’t cry frog

Oh dear. Sometimes when I draw these things that appear from nowhere I feel concern for my sanity…

Found images in acrylic media on printing paper. Image 6×6 inches (15×15 cm) approximately.

Pick and mix

beginning a collage of items from lessons in Year of the Spark with Carla Sonheim
Year of the Spark

This is just the beginning of the piece. At lesson 23, the year’s work is nearly done. It’s been brilliant! Year of the Spark has followed Year of the Fairy Tale – both with Carla Sonheim. This year Lynn Whipple has provided half the lessons. Super mix of talents.

lesson-23-main-III kid myself it now looks a teeny weeny bit like an Egyptian tomb wall – I shall call the bathing belle Nefertiti.

Next year it will be Y is for Yellow. Watch this space…

Boulder folk

stylised folk with boulders for heads - goes with picture entitled Boulder Bash
Boulder Folk ready for the Boulder Bash

Another from my series about the Moeraki boulders. Silly but colourful! The image is 8×10 inches (25.5×20 cm), painted in various acrylic media on paper.

Boulder bash

sort of abstract landscape inspired by the Moerake Boulders NZ
Boulder bash
© Catherine Redmayne

One of a series of paintings referring to the amazing Moeraki Boulders in New Zealand. The image is 10×8 inches (25.5×20 cm) painted on paper with a variety of acrylic products.

Face

An expressive portrait of a woman. Collage with drawing and pattern on black background.
Face
© Catherine Redmayne

A woman’s face. Her expression is sad, lost in her own thoughts maybe. An experimental collage which seems to be complete at this stage. I like it anyway!

Mixed media on paper, the image measures 8×10 inches (20×25.5 cm).

Face of man

Experimental painting of a man's face with a monotype drawing mounted on a textured background by Catherine RedmayneExperimental painting: blind contour drawing of a man’s face done with monotype and then mounted on a textured background. Couldn’t think of anything to do next so in the ‘look at later’ pile! Image 8×10 inches (20×25.5 cm)