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Comment on August 2nd, 2009 (Contemplating the imminent house move)

2009-09-05T08:47:37Z

I would have to say this one uses appropriated images...from other people's houses!

Comment on August 2nd, 2009 (Contemplating the imminent house move)

2009-09-04T05:45:08Z

This one I'm digging ... like the play on still life. Items from around the house?

Comment on August 22, 2009 (Nowhere I have been)

2009-09-01T14:55:05Z

I'm not sure what to say about the Nowhere series. They may have been inspired by actual features but, without wanting to sound trite, they appear to be exploring rather than describing some kind of emotional landscape too. Perhaps there is something here to do with new developments in your creative process which are demanding to be taken further. They are complex pieces, not easily analysed. As the title suggests, the places these works go to are enigmatic, and perhaps no-one has been there yet. You'll have to take us further with these.

Comment on August 27, 2009 (Intrusion)

2009-09-01T14:42:53Z

I would say that this piece is a twin to By the Sacramento River, and my comments would be much the same, only this time the area around the river is dry and brown. Despite the tap/pump affair, the river doesn't appear to be able to cope. In fact, the river itself looks tortured, not flowing but spiky, half blue and half grey (pollution/mud?). In my opinion the composition of this piece is very effective. Putting the formidable lump of plumbing apparatus at the centre of the work creates a very worrying effect, especially since it seems to have a mechanical face, lookingvstraight at the viewer through a kind-of staring eye.

Comment on August 28, 2009 (Island Lake)

2009-09-01T14:29:07Z

I love this one. As with a number of the works with this kind of colour palette, you create the impression of an almost arctic landscape with sharp lines, and cold colours, water and rock forms. But in this piece the lines and colours are more solid, less ethereal than, for example, in the Nowhere series.

Comment on August 25, 2009 (Penner lake)

2009-09-01T14:11:21Z

Penner Lake and Underwater seem to describe something similar to By the Sacramento River and Under the Bridge. There appears to be a lot of reference to the debris that has collected, yet it has somehow merged with the natural features of water and living organisms, becoming indistinguishable from them. I like the way you have used 'watery'colours and the way you depict the sun catching the water, which combine to create a beautiful, yet quite elusive experience.

Comment on August 27, 2009 (Intrusion)

2009-08-31T03:52:14Z

I like it. This technique is coming out very nice.

Comment on August 24, 2009 (Nowhere 3)

2009-08-25T16:48:34Z

I like these 'Nowhere' series. It has a feel of underground destruction from a non-artist point of view. I saw it developing when 'Nowhere 2' was published. Intricately nice.

Comment on August 21, 2009 (Out of the night)

2009-08-25T16:42:59Z

I like how the light and colors blend 'into the night'. Something like a kaleidoscope effect.

Comment on August 20, 2009 (Trace)

2009-08-23T22:12:48Z

It's intended to be very minimal, reductive, almost not there...