transcendence

2010-06-28T02:17:00.000-07:00

Have now got my own Gallery at St. Bathans, but am not there for winter. Hope to be back again in September, when weather improves.so am resident in Dunedin over winter. taking meditations, painting and doing auragraphs and a few rag mats.

2009-12-19T17:00:00.000-08:00

well it is now December. i don't know how to get people to look at my blog, but anyway, i have finished at Art School now, and graduate a couple of weeks ago. now i am looking for a place to live, Found beautiful garden last night where I HAVE BEEN INVITED TO GO AND PAINT.
It is full of roses, fox gloves, hellebores, lovely colours etc. Today i am waiting, Arron said he would call round, I cleaned the car, as John has arrived from Scotland and will se it for a few weeks. Still no further with anything re Liam, and the fact that there has been no responsibility taken for his death. I gave all the relevant ppers to a woman lawyer, only to be told she couldn't do anything for me, and another big bill.
I've been down to Piano flatit is so beautifll down there I just ant to stay there, but had to come back. judy said to come down any time.

completely floored

2009-11-02T00:07:00.000-08:00

I have been to the courtcase concerning my son's death. THE cse was dismissed by the Judge. So it is ok to drive around in the mountins and kill people?Can't believe it. tghey say there is nothing i CAN DO wHAT IS GOING ON IN nz/. If I want to persue this case further, I have to come p with lot of money , basically before anyone will help me, Well cn anyone help? IS there anyone else out there who thinks it is unfir that someone who is driving a 4wd AND jumps out leaving his pasangers in an out of control vehicle, carrering down a steep valley/ Ny son was crushed to death. I spent over $ 3oo, ooo on his education alone, and have since spent thousnds on his funreral, lawyers, who havent done anything to help, etc. where can I go forward on this?

Mind body soul Arrowtown

2009-04-16T15:45:00.000-07:00

This weekend i will be doing auragraphs in Arrowtown on Sunday, so if anyone wants to get their lives sorted out now is the time

Easter holls

2009-04-16T15:28:00.000-07:00

Well i have gone a long way since the last time I wrote anything on my blog. the police constable on m,y sons case died recently. I went to his funeral. he was a good chap. Since then things have been getting better for me, in the fact that I have been getting looked after better, my life is moving on. Iv'e even met a man, with whom I seem to spend quite a bit of time . I am supposed to be writing an essay for school, but get easily sidetracked. All I like doing is painting, and being in Central Otago. I think I still need healing after my son's death. I have to attend a court case in Queenstown on Monday. the driver of the 4WD that crushed Liam hasn't even appeared before a Judge yet, and it is allmost a year now. This only prolongs the whole process. but then perhaps we shouldn't move on too quickly. one slowly moves on.
i haver spent all morning looking at the video of Susan Boyle. She is just such a beautiful huyman being. her singing is so moving, that i xcan't even think of writing. I WISH I HAD GOT BETTER AT my electronic arts as I want to post that video on this site so that it is a part of my world too. i will definately buy her CDs so that i can play them in my sports car, as i cruise along with the top downon a beautiful sunny day. She makes me really want to live how I truely feel. We should all be lilving our dreams.

help

2008-09-17T17:18:00.001-07:00

could someone please help me to get my film, and remix image onto my blog site?
I have been to the student help center, someone came to help me, but we never got anything done. I am no better off and I only get upset when I come here, What shall I do?

work to date

2008-09-03T17:37:00.000-07:00

I haven't been able to get my film onto this site yet, as I need extra help. i have spoken to Rachel about this and have gone to William for extra help. Perhaps too it needs to be remembered that my son was recently killed, and I am still reeling from the shock of this, and am trying to cope with Lawyers, coroner, Police, Homicide inquiry, all of which is new to me, and I am finding that it is all rather a man's world, and females may be little spoken down to, so sometimes I am finding myself up against a brick wall as it were. I also have to find out about the laws of this country, having spent most of life in Scotland where life, and the countryside is relatively gentle. I find it a big shock to have to be inadvertently enmeshed in the rigors of NZ society, and the legalities of, which I find on the whole rather rough, and the respect for a life, rather lacking. what IS JUSTICE/ WHAT IS responsibility?

loop film storyboard

2008-07-23T16:03:00.000-07:00

we are going to go for a drive and film some scenery.we looked at some sea scenery, as driving along fast on a coastal road, and a loop film of two blokes, bumping into each other in the streets
but decided that a drive would be the best thing. possibly shoot a 360scene as a loop.

continuing saga

2008-06-15T20:31:00.000-07:00

Well we have been through the funeral, and cleaned out the boys flat in Queenstown, and pi8cked up Liams tools, I have just taken some back as his boss said they could buy some to help with funeral costs.
Much has happened. At Art school, I couldn't go to classes at first, and just kept up wqith deadlines, and am now in a little class at design school, in ceramics, so that isn't too difficult for me, although I am still getting upset every day. I have been going to the community law centre, trying to find out things, but they ionly say just go along with what the police are doing. I picked up a phamphlet from there for victim support, and they arranged a meeting with the coroner for me. as I don't know how this all works, I need to know how. The coroner said he would get Shreik to take me up to the site where the 4WD wernt over and Liam was crushed by it, and came to rest on a grassy verge on the side of a little trickling hillside stream. That was quite peaceful, but up where the lads had put Liam into the helicopter, i could feel all their grief. I had gone up 2 weeks earlier, but couldn't get up in my car, the road from piano flatisnt that great.
There was also the problem of the news paper article, where they had said, the vehicle was going slowly, three got out, the other one didn't, This sounded as though Liam had just sat there. so Ryan said he would help me with that, but nothing has happened. so I thought we should just write a letter to the Editor.
The ones who saw the 4W@D go over said it all happened in slow motion, But the ones from the top said it must have been going at least 80-90ks, and they had only just got out, so stories vary.
I think liam must have been draged along, judging by his clothes, he was also at the site where the vehicle landed on its side and broke all the side windows, as he had little cuts all over his hands, and his body was crushed at some point, either there, or at the other side of the stream, where it hit the rock and bounced back to the othere side of the stream and onto it's wheels again. Liam came to rest on a grassy verg at the other side of the stream. I sat for a while and them sprinkled water on Liams final resting site.
I have also been trying to find out about the road, and it is a public road, but the Southland end is shut off in the winter. They don't do any maintenence, as to discourage people from using it.
What they call a road is just huge ruts, and I don't know how any vehicle would even think of trying to go up it. Let alone take passengers. I stopped at the shingle creek pub, which is at the other end of the track. the codc grade that end, but only a few bikes go in. the 4WD's just tip over it is so bad, but these mishaps go unreported. We are going over to australia for a few weeks, so it will be good to get away and be warm.
i went up and saw some of the lads, Josh said he had become an alcoholic, but for a good cause.
I saw Dale briefly he wasn't too happy and said they hadn't spoken to the police yet. there is going to be an inquest, but this won't be till nearer the end of the year. Shriek said it was a homocide investigation, I had to look that up in the dictionary.

2008-05-26T18:00:00.000-07:00

Well, I was suddenly thrown into funeral arrangements, people, phone calls, food, cards, flowers, weeping, sleeping, trying to keep afloat.
But the first important thing was to get his body back. He had been taken to a funeral home in Gore, being nearest to where the accident happened. They had plans of taking his body to Invercargill for a postmortem investigation. So first thing the next morning, Mother's day. I was on the phone, to Gore funeral home. To the only coroner in NZ on duty that day. I explained that I didn't believe in cutting up bodies, and that the body had to remain still in the place where it lay for at least three days. Well I'll have to phone you back on what I decide. I talked to Shreik the Policeman at Riversdale who was on the job, he said he would do what he could for me.I wanted Liams body back in Dunedin with me. I also got in touch with Hope and Son Funeral directors, because they know what to do in these circumstances.It was later resolved that they would bring the body through to dunedin that day, to be taken to the hospital at 1.30pm.
Well now we were getting somewhere.
By this time the word was out and relations were arriving and suggesting this and that, but I knew exactly what I had to do and held on strongly to that. By 1.30 I was down at the hospital, meeting a brother-in-law there, but the body hadn't arrived and they wouldn't take us down anyway. Had to have a note from the police. This was their jurisdiction. We waited an hour, and max had had enough and went up to the house. I walked down to the police station, where they said he had just arrived at the hospital, and I was given the note. I took this back to the hospital and a policeman came and took me down to see Liams body. What a Mothers day present, the body of my dead boy. I just did healing on him and talked to him. I could see cuts on his face and hands, a large bruise on his chest, his hair clogged with blood. Oh poor boy so fragile and so dead.

Tragedy

2008-05-22T17:17:00.000-07:00

Since I last wrote on this site, I have gone through an amazing sureal challenge.
I was working at an Expo doing auragraphs for people on the Saturday, that evening I had the knock on the door by the Policeman."who is it?" I let him in." well I don't think there is any easy way of telling you this but your son was killed in a 4 WD accident in the Umbrella Mts earlier on today. Oh no weep howl wail shake shock. I call my niece and she comes to be with me. That was the beginning, We had to pick Dunstan the younger brothe up from Rugby, I phoned the other son who flatted with Liam, He didn't even know., and so it went on and on from there. Shriek the policeman on the job phoned laTE THAT NIGHT relating some of the details to me.The boys were on a weekend 4WD drive expidition, from Piano flat, they had only just gone through the gate, which was to be closed the next week for winter, The first vehicle got up the slope, the next tried and they had to bail out, then Liams 4wd TRIED AND AS IT WAS GOING OVER dALE CALLED TO BAIL OUT They watched the truck go over, looked around and noticed Liam wasnt with them. Josh who was in the front passenger seat saaid he had looked at Liam and will never forget the look of terror in Liams face. Josh had second thoughts about jumping, but did. they were on the high side of the vehicle as it went the two on the driver's side got out safely. they couldn't see the car as it dropped down a steep mountain side. the ones an a following 4WD saw the truck as it ran backward down the hill, hit an outcrop and catapaulted down further. Liam was thrown out at some stage, and landed with the truck just below him.
When the boys reached Liam he was allmost gone. there was blood coming out his ears, nose and mouth, there'd been a fatel bash to his head plus an impact on his chest. There were cuts on his face and hands and his eyes were going black. This must have been such an awful death for poor Liam. He only ever lived to please others. When talking to Shreik when I went down to pick up Liam's clothes, I had a vision of liam being tossed around in the car, there was a lot of heavy music equipment in it too. A couple of days later when i was in the back of someones car, and tried to get out, I pushed the lock knob and the door wouldn't open, I said this is what happened to Liam. well we dont know why he couldn"t get out at the time, some of the boys thought that if he had tried to get out on the lower side, he hadn't made it. Speculation, God knows what the police will come up with.
When it was in the papers on the Monday, it was worded in such a way as to sound as though the truck was moving very slowly and the others got out and liam didn't, as if infering why didn' he gat out. this upset me, because it sounds like putting the onus onto Liam. Anything could have happened. liam was very fit, and worked as a plumbing apprentice, Had been to one of the best boarding schools in Scotland, won all of his 10k races, won a marathon in Amaerica when he was 16. All the first night I felt, he couldn;t get out. Something must have happened, and I will fight tooth and nail, for my sons good name. more later, So if I am not at Art School, this is why

2008-05-07T16:39:00.000-07:00

Time based story

2008-05-07T16:13:00.000-07:00

turner and the sublime

2008-04-16T23:18:00.000-07:00

2008-04-13T18:32:00.001-07:00

copyright

2008-04-09T15:39:00.000-07:00

वे अरे talking अबाउट थे लिकेनेस बेत्वीन जॉर्ज हर्रिसों'स माय स्वीट लोर्ड, एंड हे'स सो फिने बी थे चिफ्फोंस।
रेटिंग स्य्स्तेम .३ इ थिंक ठाट थे सोंग्स अरे सोमेव्हत अलीके।
मेलोडी।
सिमिलर ह्र्मोंय चोर्ड स्त्रुक्टुरे अ लिटिल दिफ्फेरेंट र्य्थ्म कुओते सिमिलर टेंपो हर्रिसों इस अ बीत सोफ्टर।
१.थे सोंग्स अरे सिमिलर इन सोंग स्त्रुक्टुरे, ऑफ़ वोर्ड्स
२ थे अरे दिफ्फेरेंट इन ठाट हर्रिसों हस अ स्लोवेर टेंपो, एंड थे सौन्द इस लेस हर्ष
केस स्तुद्य २।
of the drawing of the chair by artist Lebus Woods in 1987 Universal Studios mde a film 12 monkeys, in which the chair used is exactly the same as Wood's drawing.

case study 3.
Keir smith's work is a very interesting assimilation of of doing in principle what is going on in this world he is making a point public and walks his talk. I think a lot more people need to make their views public, as there is a lot of dumbfoundedness about and people don't speak the truth anymore from their hearts, so its a good idea to get out there. So I think keir is doing a great job by showing his works at the fringe festivals.
seen youtube
flickr I didn't upload an image, because I havent presantly got access to one of my photos, and i don't want to get one off the web, and i dont want to waste my time in an effort to do something that I don't want to or deem necessary.
can't be bothered visiting cc site
ears buzzing been on computer enough brain melting
get off get off get off.

my paintings

2008-04-02T15:44:00.000-07:00

Exhibition

2008-04-02T15:21:00.000-07:00

poster for my upcoming exhibition

2008-03-19T15:37:00.000-07:00

What was Matisse’s input into the art world during the 20^th century?

What led to the liberation of colour in the modern period?

These are some of the changes that led to the liberation of colour and art in the modern period Before the French revolution art was mainly classical, romantic and religious. It belonged to genres. Colour was static. Light and dark, shading. The primary colours red blue and yellow, used to demarcate perspective. Each painting was stylized, but now people were wanting change. The Industrial revolution was happening, horizons were widening. Travel was opening up, artists were recognising that there was art other than what they knew. There was the Japanese woodcut with it’s bold outlines and blocks of colour. African art with its geometric forms, Pacific art full of colour and pattern. In Germany and Austria new ideas in art were forming infact all over Europe there was change. Psychoanalysis was coming into vogue, ideas were changing. The First world war was upon them. Men had to fight or make artistic posters. This also influenced the type of art that was being produced Art was virtually forced to change through the happenings of Europe at that time, at the beginning of the 20^th century.

What were the Main Influences on Matisse’s work?

At the end of the 19^th century Turner, Gauguin and Cezanne , to name but a few of the modernist painters, were bringing a new era of art to the fore. Matisse was familiar with Turners vibrant sunsets of colour and light. He viewed his exhibition in London in 1897.He was familiar with Gauguins Pacific paintings of an idyllic world of beautiful bodies and colours. Cezanne was trying to paint what he saw, in the form of colour and geometric forms. Matisse purchased one of his paintings in 1900. He also bought a Van Gaugh drawing and a bust by Rodin. Pointillism was being experimented with, as a form of painting with colour in dots, one colour bringing out the other, as in Seurat’s, The Bathers. Matisse had studied art at various academys and schools at St. Quentin and in Paris. He Knew Andre Derain, Chabaud, and Jean Puy, all up and coming artists of the time. He also had an important alliance with Picasso, in the form of keeping abrest of what the other was doing.

Fauvism 1903-7

The 20thcentury was a time of great change, in literature, science, technology, politics, and of course the art world, representational art and perspective were all out the window as it were, and freedom of art reigned. Matisse and a few friends put work into a Paris exhibition in 1905 and there was a great outcry of” Wild Beasts”, so the Fauve movement was began, Their work had been called barbaric, naïve, and likened to a child’s work. The style of Fauvism was colourful, and assertive, lyrical, with the use of flat areas of colour, and strong application of paint. Matisse was the most powerful artist of the group. He was a born leader and encouraged other artists. Fauvism was shaped by the landscape of the Midi. It was at that time an assault on the French praised art. German expressionism tater adopted the aggressiveness of Fauve colour. The other Fauvists were, Maurice de Vlamink, Andre’ Derain, Roul Duffy and George Braque. Braque later moved into cubism with Picasso, Derain’s painting became tighter and old masterly. Matisse had found his niche.

How Matisse used colour and composition.

From the mid 1980s colour in France had become more advanced. It was a sign of vitality and wellbeing, feeling, energy and joy de vivre’. Colour was a gift. It was the outer and inner vision of fusion and harmony and pictorial organization. Matisse uses the primary colours. He paints in blue, green, yellow and red and notices that each brushstroke diminishes the importance of the preceding strokes. He wants a relationship between each colour , between the tones. They must sustain each other, form a harmony. He fused colour and form to convey his optical and emotional response to the subject he was painting. He dreamed of an art of balance, purity and serenity, the outer and inner of fusion and harmony and pictorial organization. To him there was no conflict between what he viewed outwardly and his inner spiritual experience. His themes were devoted to women, interiors, and flowers, and by 1907 he had reached a balance in his work. His paintings were pictorially correct , energetic, and yet full of inner peace. He says he cannot copy nature as it is seen, but must form a painting of spiritual living harmony. The work of his mind .His objects empty spaces, proportions, various elements expression of feeling, are all arranged in a decorative manner and all must play a part in the final composition.

The influence of Travel, place and light in the form of colour

Artists moved from Paristo the south of France, staying in Fishing villages, such as St. Tropaez, where Matisse stayed with Paul Signac in 1904,and Collieure, where Matisse and Derain went in 1905, looking for a greater purity of natural sensation. They wanted to find a special kind of chromatic energy in nature. They wanted to concentrate the whole psyche on canvas in colour. The liberation of colour between 1905 and 7 was mostly due to Matisse in his images of the Mediterranean. His pink skyes and awnings, lion coloured headlands and red masts. He also travelled to Tahiti and Morocco and London, keeping abreast of the currant art scene and the influence of new landscapes and peoples. His paintings were being exhibited over Europe, Britain and in America.

The changes in Matisse’s art , style and colour.

Figure la moulade

Painting of a seascape and beach called La Moulade, near Collioure. Matisse did this painting in situ. He liked to paint in colours in the mornings, working quickly on a panel he carried in his paint box. He found this the quickest and best dictation of nature. He made many pencil scetches and small oils in Collieure, using these later on to creat large scale compositions. The brushwork in this painting attests the quickness with which it was made. Ribbons of paint alternate with zig-zag strokes, noting the shifts in geograph and capturing the light, and dark areas of the scene. He has taken care to note the colour changes in the water, from purples, to turquoise and greens.

This painting was done during his Fauve period, and is completely awash with colour and spontinaety .

Le Luxe ll 1907-8 oil.

This is the earliest painting of Matisse where he shows his sensitivity of line and constructive decorative element, and where he fully realises his unique control of broad colours. He and Picasso were both working on life sized figure subjects at this time. They were both aware of Cezannes figure paintings and may have been aware of each others works.

La Capeline de paille d’lItalie 1922-3 oil

Matisse’s art was now becoming much more accomplished and this is a very powerful painting indeed. The woman sitting within the elaborate designs of tablecloth and wallpaper. The electric knowing blue of her hat and face encompassed by two roses, with vibrant brushstrokes and yet serene and peaceful as though the model were in a reverie and not wanting to be disturbed. He was now filling his paintings with design and colour, making the whole painting as a rich tapestry.

Matisse as an artist

Matisse was utterly self sufficient in his beliefs as an artist. He was 45 when the war broke out in 1914and was too old to fight. He moved to the Cote d’Azure, his paintings having become even more abstract. He needed to remain in the same state of mind for several days in order to do his painting. He found an apartment in the Hotel Regina and painted what was about him; the wrought iron balcony, the door, the shutters and the Mediterranean. He said he “ wanted his art to have the effect of a good armchair on a tired businessman.”.[1] Matisse knew his art audience was the educated bourgeois. His purpose was to render his emotion,. He was putting his state of soul self , the objects around him and his relations into his paintings. Matisse was a grand Bourgeois. His compositions carried an air of formal grandeur, a declamation of high tradition of French art. At this time, Russia was in close contact with the rest of Europe and the impact of Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism and Futurism had been felt and absorbed there. Wealthy Bourgeois collectors Sergey Shchukin and Ivan Morizov collected Matisse.

Later years.

When Matisse was bedridden after an operation in his 70s, he changed his method of work. He had assistants paint paper with brilliantly coloured hues in gauche, and these he cut out into shapes and pasted onto paper. He called them decoupages or cut outs. He said that cutting into paper reminded him of sculpture. He talked about the beneficial radiation of colour, its power to heal, and would prop his paintings around the bed of a sick friend. His cut outs radiated such intense colour, the cobalt blues, fuchias, oranges, velvety blacks and high yellows. Matisse wanted to fix a hierarchy of all his sensations. Through control he wanted to fix and articulate the nuances of feeling. The process of cutting was very decisive. When most artists would be dead or repeating themselves, Matisse was re inventing art at the age of 74 . His cut outs were the most advanced form of art in Europe. Their gestures were whole and complete. Gestures others aspired to but could not reach.

To reiterate, Matisse had inherited the symbolic traditions of Christianity and Islam and with his memories of his Tahiti visit in 1930, Matisse uses the bright assure of the sea, the repetition of pattern of Arabic tile work. To form Large Composition With Masks 1953. . No other artist, except perhaps Picasso could have steeped such an image in such intense physical sensation of memories.

Bibliography

Hughes, Robert. Shock of the New, Thames and Hudson, 1980

[1] Hughes, Robert. Shock of the New, 1980, p.141

Timetable

2008-03-19T14:58:00.000-07:00

Monday

Tuesday

[1]Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Painting

Theory

Digital literacy

Drawing

Self DirectedT

[1]

castle Menzies

2008-03-12T15:32:00.001-07:00

I found this image in an old magazine when I was doing a collage for drawing. It used to be a youth hostel and I stayed in it when I first went to Scotland. Now it has a tearoom and one can look arouond the Castle It is in a fabulously beautiful part of Perthshire. My son used to go to school over the hill at Rannoch Boarding School. Oh the memories. I would go back there in a moment.

2008-03-12T14:31:00.000-07:00

I have chosen this video because the sound I am listening to is the sea, and i love the imaging on this one

mediteranian sea

2008-03-12T14:29:00.001-07:00

BlueOysterGallery review The Grad show

2008-03-05T14:12:00.000-08:00

Well it is not the sort of thing I would go on about.
Did I like it?
well not the sort of experience one would like to get involved in. better to forget about this sort of happening.
the message?
well it sounded as though one were meant to be in an earthquake aftermath,wind, buildings crashing shouting voices, rumbling, buildings piled in heaps of rubble.
Videos of women telling tales of rape, men taking advantage, A glum conumdrum I would think.
What else?
was glad to get away really, but still contained a vivid sense of upset and unease.

2008-03-05T13:51:00.000-08:00

crescendo seasculpture

2008-02-27T14:39:00.000-08:00

Hi,
It is interesting to see thaT SOMEONE IN INTO TRANSCENDENCE

upset

2008-02-27T14:24:00.000-08:00

hi I've just been crying because I can' do what I want on the computer

Transcendence

2008-02-27T13:32:00.000-08:00

I think computers are handy, but I don't really like using them.
I do enjoy writing to people, and communicating. It is also ok to be able to write essays, but I really don't like sitting too long at the computer.
cheers helen