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earth, water, flame triptych
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earth, water and flame
Midwinter Spring -“its own season ( T.S. Eliot)”, has its own season on Bodmin Moor, and each of these three paintings carries fragment, history, memory, sense of place, spirit and trace of other. Water from a stream by the studio is mixed with soluble oil paint and…
earth contains fragments of earth from the moor
water has a stream-water wash, between paint layers
flame carries ash from Christmas Day fire-pit flame
Colouring Christmas
Colouring Christmas is a meditation, to do with music, love, nature, fire and the human spirit. Made on Christmas day 2019, with found winter colour from Siblyback Lake in Cornwall and original music played on the Egyptian Oud.
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a place for everything…
welcome Oud x
and then the film…
Following on from the poetry pamphlet Yn Mis Hedre/In October, here is a new short film to do with the art making process, which includes a reading of the poem in English and Cornish, together with music on bouzouki. I hope you like it. Thank you for viewing:
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all sewn up…
The latest pamphlet, in the Poem by Post project, is all sewn up. [please see under ARTISTSPRESS, on this site, for project details]
With Thanks to Jerry for translating the work into the Cornish language and to Susan for her sensitive pencil drawing. Here’s the final stitch…
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Poem by Post project
the latest collaborative project in this series is nearing completion, with a translation into the Cornish language…
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expanded painting…
deliberating on a return to this project…
back to work in the age of inexactitude….
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old blocks in a new book (?)
66 woodblock prints come to light – have spent an afternoon with them…
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(re)searching…
after posting printed wooden blocks and net, I came across these beginnings; now an artists’ book…
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working around things…
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lifting the wraps…
Our work at the Old Paraffin Store, St Anthony Head, earlier this year essentially sold out. We return next year 7th – 14th May.
However, there were some experimental cyanotypes, which at the time we did not put up for sale and whilst they are not “regular” examples, I do love them for their happy-accidentness ( maybe why I was keeping them under wraps, with thanks to Sam who prompted the (re)search for them…)
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I also came across two pieces from our 2017 residency, bringing back memories of the site and the hundreds of lovely folk who came to see what we were up to, over the past three years.
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one way or another…
The work is inspired by ongoing research, to do the juxtaposition of found wire(mesh), sea and stone; movement, stillness, flashes of light.
So here they are hung horizontally and vertically. They could also be hung with spacing or as individual works (see earlier posting).
They are painted in water mixable oil paint and pigment, currently my mediums of choice, offering a flat and fat surface that can be delicately over-painted and cut into. I masked up the sides/edges of the canvases prior to painting so as to emphasis a boundary/ other dimension.
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paintings: 50,51,52
Sea & Stone research: following several weeks of thought and digital experiments on how to resolve three paintings, an unexpected day in the studio due to intense and sustained rainfall, brought out the bright red pigment and oil; a triptych (?)
retreat
We’ve only been back a couple of days
bring on another retreat…
Filmed and recorded inside a straw bale barn, overlooking the apple orchard, at Cotna Barton Eco Retreat, Gorran Churchtown, Cornwall during a day of sustaining August rain…
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work in progress
three paintings arising from sea & stone research
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Triple Storm
(…Curled in the Triple Storm where Love reposes.
from The Inner Gold by Jean Mambrino, translated by Jonathan Griffin)
three years of redaction, scraping back, adding layers and cutting through…
© Triple Storm, painting, oil on canvas (1 m x 1 m) Philip Bennetta, 2019
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wire and stone
and in project space…
© frame, printed mesh over killick stone, Philip Bennetta 2019
