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DALL collection one studio 1 NEBULA and WORDLESS PLACE |
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STUDIO 1:
COLLECTION ONE FOYER STUDIO
2: COLLECTION TWO FOYER |
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ARTIST'S NOTES
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1950 - Small Nebula - 30cm x 30cm oil on canvas SOLD |
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1977 - Nebula 16 -
100cm x 100cm oil on canvas SOLD |
1975 - Nebula 14 - 80cm x 80cm oil on canvas SOLD |
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1966 - Nebula 5 - 170cm x 170cm oil on canvas SOLD |
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1969 - Nebula 8 -140cm x 140cm oil on canvas on exhibition at the Lord Charles Somerset Hotel |
1970 - Nebula 9 -140cm x 140cm oil on canvas SOLD |
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ARTIST'S
NOTES ON NEBULA JULY 18, 2007 Part 1 Celestial Inspiration: One of the fun and playful aspects of being an artist is where the mind can take you. And in my case, my mind takes me almost anywhere and everywhere, even to those far away places that I’ve never been to before. After all, these are the places that I get my inspiration to paint from! So what is this Nebula Series stuff all about? Well, if you didn’t know already, a Nebula is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen gas and plasma (a lot of things I know nothing about) usually formed after a star has exploded. Ironically, it is also the material used in the first stage of a star’s cycle of existence. Does The Big Bang ring a bell? And therein lies my inspiring far away thought, to paint a series of paintings, primarily about the feeling of an exploding and dissipating mass of energy. Stars must destroy themselves to create new stars. Magical nature does it again, with yet another unsolvable mystery for me to ponder in my lonely studio. |
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1976 - Nebula 15 - 80cm x 80cm oil on canvas SOLD |
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1965 - Nebula 4 -
170cm x 170cm oil on canvas SOLD |
1978 - Nebula 17 -
100cm x 100cm oil on canvas SOLD |
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2066 - Nebula 37 - 130cm x 170cm oil on canvas |
1967 - Nebula 6 - 140cm x 170cm oil on canvas SOLD |
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ARTIST'S
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NEBULA JULY 18, 2007 Part 2 Objectivism: Nebula is a series about constant change, or if the imagination is stretched a little, imagine that infinitesimal moment between the end of one cycle of change and the beginning of the next. This is the very point in time that this series became relevant to my mission. That tiny volatile moment between life and death or existence and non-existence where matter, time, space is neither here nor there, but is definitely somewhere. It is the feeling of somewhere that I am painting. It’s a confusing point, but an interesting thought to play with on canvas, if you can get the feeling and emotion of the moment. No focal point, no tangible structure, yet purposeful in its abstracted chaos of explosive colour. In some of the paintings, I introduced different kinds of symbols, which for me, form an interesting language projecting definite and solid stability that gets caught within the maelstrom of exploding matter. I want to throw some sense into the mix by suggesting that possibly “there is something in nothing and what we don’t see may in reality really exist.” |
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 Small Nebula Series 40cm x 40cm oil on canvas ALL SOLD |
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2064 - Nebula 35 - 200cm x 200cm oil on canvas SOLD |
2068
- Nebula 35 -
200cm x 200cm oil on canvas SOLD |
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2065 - Nebula 36 -
200cm x 200cm oil on canvas SOLD |
2067 - Nebula 38 - 170cm x 170cm oil on canvas on exhibition at the Tsogo Sun Arabella Hotel |
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1974 - Nebula 13 - 80cm x 80cm oil on canvas SOLD |
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ARTIST'S
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NEBULA JULY 18, 2007 Part 3 Technical Points: Creating an emotional human connection between viewer and artwork is the road that I have chosen to take as an artist. It’s a much more difficult approach than necessary, but I enjoy the process. Trying to paint an intangible thing like a feeling, a moment or an emotion is a huge challenge for me. Trying to paint a Nebula in human emotional terms is nearly impossible, but I tried. I used thick texture creating dimensional solidity and realness to the composition. I layered a mix of art materials over many painting sessions, each time adding a new technical value to the work creating a floating, drifting feeling. As the pieces evolved, I added other paint materials to see if I could re-create a feeling of explosiveness. I used artist’s inks, acrylics, oils, house paint, solvents, glitter paint, glass paint, metallic paint, fabric paint, you name it and I experimented with it. During the last sessions I highlighted negative (light) areas and softened and toned positive (dark) areas to create luminosity and depth by bringing the whole painting together and giving it life. |
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Left to Right 40cm x 40cm oil on canvas Top row: 2046 -Nebula 29 - SOLD, 2050 -Nebula 33 - SOLD, 1983 -Nebula 22 - SOLD, 2051 - Nebula 22 - SOLD Middle row: 1981 -Nebula 20 - SOLD, 1983 -Nebula 22 - SOLD, 2078 -Nebula 48, (available) 2070 -Nebula 40 - SOLD Bottom row: 2045 -Nebula 28 - SOLD, 1980 -Nebula 19 - ,SOLD, 2075 -Nebula 45 - SOLD, 2072 -Nebula 42 SOLD |
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1963 - Nebula 2 - 200cm x 200cm oil on canvas SOLD |
1964 - Nebula 3 - 200cm x 200cm oil on canvas SOLD |
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1971 - Nebula
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1972- Nebula
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1973 - Nebula 12 122cm x 40cm 122cm x 40cm 122cm x 40cm oil on wood oil on wood oil on wood SOLD SOLD |
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1968 - Nebula 7 -140cm x 170cm oil on canvas SOLD |
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ARTIST'S
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NEBULA JULY 18, 2007 Part 4 Final Thoughts: Enjoying my work is often better without an explanation, however, over the years a number of collectors and supporters who have followed my career, enjoy knowing what I do and why I do it. So thank you for reading this if you were one of those people. |
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ARTIST'S NOTES
ON WORDLESS PLACE The title ‘Wordless Place’ itself reflects the core idea of the series. Best described technically as my fluid paintings of moody emotional distraction. But that title didn’t ring as true as A Wordless Place. If one understands my intention, the works in this series literally mean to take the viewer into another world; an emotionally connected world without a tangible definition. It is very clear
to see the difference between the style of art in this series as compared
with any of my other work. The paint, the structure, the use of light and
dark, the swirls of energy are all secondary to the essence of aesthetic
meaning. The art in this case, breathes its artistic life into the viewer
with a more visceral deeper meaning, not by looking at the surface of the
Wordless Place, but by looking implicitly through the work, into another
reality that I am artistically reaching into and describing with the brush
stroke. |
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3518 - New Wordless Place Still Exists 12
-160cm x 160cm acrylic on canvas on exhibition at the Scribante Gallery Durban |
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1304
- New Wordless Place Still Exists 12 -100cm x 100cm oil ink on canvas SOLD |
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2307
- A Wordless Place Still Exists 4 120cm x 120cm oil mixed media on canvas SOLD |
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- New Wordless Place 4 120cm x 120cm oil ink on canvas |
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2901 -
Wordless Place Flames -160cm x 200cm oil on canvas SOLD |
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2593 -
Wordless Place Landscape -60cm x 120cm oil on canvas SOLD |
2652 -
Wordless Place Morning Light -52cm x 94cm oil on canvas |
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2527 -
New Wordless Place 2 -80cm x 80cm oil on canvas SOLD |
2305 -
A Wordless Place Still Exists 2 -140cm x 140cm oil on canvas SOLD |
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2415 -
A Wordless Place Still Exists 11 -100cm x 100cm oil on canvas SOLD |
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2657 -
A Wordless Place Firestorm -100cm x 100cm oil on canvas SOLD |
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2595 -
New Wordless Place 5 - 80cm x 80cm oil on canvas SOLD |
2555 -
Small Blue Wordless Place - |
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2331 - A Wordless Place
Still Exists 8 -120cm x 120cm oil on canvas SOLD |
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2526 -
New Wordless Place 1 -100cm x 100cm oil on canvas |
2330 - A Wordless
Place Still Exists 7 -120cm x 120cm oil on canvas SOLD |
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1934 - Another
Wordless Place 1 -70cm x 60cm oil and mixed media on canvas SOLD |
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2594 - A Wordless
Tablet -59cm x 26cm oil on wood SOLD |
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2479 - A Wordless
Place Still Exists 13 -110cm x 110cm oil and mixed media on canvas SOLD |
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2340 - A Wordless
Place Still Exists 9 120cm x 120cm oil on canvas SOLD |
2414 - A Wordless
Place Still Exists 10 100cm x 100cm oil on canvas SOLD |
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2306 - A Wordless
Place Still Exists 3 -140cm x 140cm oil on canvas SOLD |
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2308 - A Wordless
Place Still Exists 5 -74cm x 84cm oil on canvas SOLD |
2309 - A Wordless
Place Still Exists 6 -59cm x 70cm oil on canvas SOLD |
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2304 - A Wordless
Place Still Exists 1 -60cm x 90cm oil on canvas SOLD |
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2304 - A Wordless
Place Still Exists 1 -60cm x 90cm oil on canvas SOLD |
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2649 - Wordless
Place Stonewall -90cm x 120cm oil on canvas SOLD |
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STUDIO 1:
COLLECTION ONE FOYER STUDIO
2: COLLECTION TWO FOYER |
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