earth, water, flame triptych
current work
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.
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:
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…
Poem by Post project
the latest collaborative project in this series is nearing completion, with a translation into the Cornish language…
expanded painting…
deliberating on a return to this project…
back to work in the age of inexactitude….
old blocks in a new book (?)
66 woodblock prints come to light – have spent an afternoon with them…
philip bennetta 