Printing a Woodblock
Featherblend Art
by featherblend
2y ago
Earlier this year I started a new project to make a series of woodblock prints depicting urban landscapes all featuring basketball courts in London. Here’s a video I made which explores the process; The project started as an experiment to make a woodblock print from an old piece of wood which had actually been an old shelf. But I loved the holes, gnarls and imperfections of the old wood. I wanted to incorporate these and combine these with an image of a place I knew to create a new picture. They are as much pictures of these places as they are of the grain of the wood itself. I love basketbal ..read more
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Art Thoughts: Destruction v Creation
Featherblend Art
by featherblend
3y ago
Destruction is an inevitable part of the creative process. Creative ideas are constantly shifting and evolving. Sometimes they become prints, paintings and sculptures or they can be lost and abandoned. Sometimes creative ideas return from the dead! During the start of lockdown last year, I came across a battle between creation and destruction being played out on a local suburban street and it made me wonder how artists had approached this theme in the past. During a walk down a local street, a blotchy piece of fence by the roadside caught my eye. I wondered how this blob-like form could have b ..read more
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Change Your Life
Featherblend Art
by featherblend
3y ago
‘CHANGE YOUR LIFE’ by the graffiti artist ‘Indiano’ (Grosse, Jürgen). Visit the Imperial War Museum for more info ..read more
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Art is Process: Philip Guston
Featherblend Art
by featherblend
3y ago
Philip Guston is an older man in this video. He’s alone in a museum and then working in his studio. His demeanour is calm and focused. He concentrates on painting a horizontal line with pink paint at the bottom of a large un-stretched canvas. The painting is hard to read but it has one of Philip’s trademark hooded figures in it and a number of round forms. It’s hard to see where the work will go but Philip’s approach is deliberate. He has an artistic vision and he works between abstraction and figuration. In his swinging America accent he tells us that; “The appearance may change, that’s why ..read more
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Art is Process: Norman Ackroyd
Featherblend Art
by featherblend
3y ago
“Don’t drink and etch”, Norman warns us. Maybe that’s because driving, like etching requires attention and concentration at each step of the process. Norman changes his approach at each stage according to what the process requires. He’s lose, focussed, instinctive, methodical. While watching him we can see that he is working things out in his mind and that he is two or three steps ahead in the process. Norman is restless. Always moving, thinking, fidgeting and playing. The creative energy comes out in his work. He paints resin on the copper plate with loose, gestural brush strokes. I love the ..read more
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Art is Process: Pope. L
Featherblend Art
by featherblend
3y ago
Pope.L, aka, William Pope.L, aka, the self-professed “friendliest black artist in America” guides us around the streets of the East Village in New York City. He’s revisiting the site of a past performance where he crawled on knees and elbows around the streets wearing a full suit while holding a potted flower. He did this to highlight the social inequality and divisions in the United States. As Pope.L says he was concerned with, “where are you in space. Who owns that space”. He talks about the process of crawling. Although this involved coming face to face with all kinds of organic nasties, P ..read more
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Art is Process: Anselm Kiefer
Featherblend Art
by featherblend
3y ago
We watch Anselm in his enormous, ex-warehouse studio space working on some large-scale works. It’s exciting to see artwork being made on this scale. He’s like an architect gone berserk! Anselm approaches the scale and the industrial techniques so freely. He’s pretty chilled. It seems like he’s just loosely painting a new picture. He casually whistles while he and his team of workers (assistants) pour molten lead from a bucket attached to a crane truck onto a canvas on the floor. But he’s definitely in charge. He directs the driver with a vigorously waving hand. It looks like such a precarious ..read more
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The Bull and the Shit
Featherblend Art
by featherblend
3y ago
Roehampton’s Alton Estate was once considered an architectural marvel. The design of the buildings in this South West London estate was influenced by leading modernist architect, Le Corbusier and they were built in the cutting-edge Brutalist style of the 1950’s. But the Alton Estate has since fallen into disrepute and is now seen as an eyesore in this leafy borough set next to Richmond Park. A view of Alton West A public sculpture standing in Alton West seems to symbolise the struggle that the estate has been going through. ‘Bull’, 1961, by artist Robert Clatworthy was placed in the Alton Es ..read more
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Discussing art with Hank
Featherblend Art
by featherblend
3y ago
Being an artist is tricky business. Artists have to position themselves and what they do in society and navigate the stereotyped image of the deranged genius and idle vagabond. They have to work hard to project professionalism to fit in. But sometimes it’s necessary to exert a little ‘creative license’. Charles Bukowski’s character Henry Hank Chinaski takes no prisoners. He’s the main character in the film Factotum, played by Matt Dillon, based on the book of the same name. The dialogue in the scene starts; Pickle Factory boss: “Writer huh? Are you sure?”, Henry Chinaski: “No, I’m not”. Hank ..read more
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Art is Process: Jonathan Meese
Featherblend Art
by featherblend
3y ago
Meese has a crazy, intense energy. He’s holding a tube of paint which he uses to paint directly onto the surfaces around the studio. He does it so casually, quickly drawing a cross here, a swastika there and then a few random dashes, dots or lines. It looks like he doesn’t care about what he’s doing but he talks so intensely and deliberately that we know he must either be nuts or purposeful about his practise. Symbols are repeated in his work over and over again. They are mixed up with the squiggly lines, splashes, drips, words and collaged bits in the pictures. The symbols become redundant o ..read more
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