Surrey Art Gallery Exhibition, 1978
Portrait No. 1
photograph, air-brush painting, 1978
Artist’s Statement
My involvement in plastics and photography
began indirectly. The first photographs were of sculpture pieces in opaque
fiberglass. These pieces were photographed in various outdoor settings while
in the process of moving my studio.
Later I began to develop the subsequent
photographs and began a series of 8" x 1 0" illustrations. I then considered
using a more flexible object to use as photographic study and came up with
a 5" diameter sphere. Slides were developed from the sphere studies and became
my concern {or some time. I then enlarged the sphere concept into sculpture
works using fiberglass constructions including sphere or discs.
The discs are clear, as were the spheres,
and used similar to the spheres in being photographed at different locations.
Later the discs were also combined with fiberglass into sculpture pieces.
The present concern is less with the
disc per se as with the graphic image obtained from studies.
All sculpture pieces, photographs and airbrush rendering being one and the
same as far as using plastics to obtain a desired effect.
Rainbow,
1974
Cast resin, wooden table, air-brush painting; disc: 31 in diameter, 1/4
- ½ thick; disc stand: 5 x 19-3/4 x 3-1/4;
table: 26-3/4 x 23-1/4 x 21 . Courtesy of Artcore.
Willo-Wisp,
1974
Cast resin & wooden table; discs: 11 and 13 in diameter; discs: stands
4 x 12 x 2; table: 27 x 50 x 24
.
Sleeper,
1976
Air-brush painting on paper, 30 x 40.1
Sunset,
1976
Air-brush painting on paper, 40- 1/2 x 30-1/2
Portrait No.
1, 1978
Photograph, air-brush painting, 29-1/2 x 37-3/4.
Portrait No.
2, 1978
Photograph, air-brush painting, 29-1/4 x 39-3/4.
Portrait No.3,
1978
Photograph, air-brush painting, 29-1/2 x 39-3/4.
Portrait No.
4, 1978
Photograph, air-brush painting, 37-3/4 x 29-1/2.