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(1039) Mary Harrison - Deconstructed Ice Arch
245
About this artwork
Personally, I love the original photograph for its dramatic subject matter and hints of scale, as well as what can be read in it. It was not, however, going to be a cushy number. And it involved working from yet another brief! After working on and looking at it for a week or so, I wrote , ” I just have yet to find my place, grip and viewpoint on it!”
My translation from the photo of the original Ice Arch required me temporarily to ignore the portrait configuration of the page and to move back into my usual square format. I realized this could be achieved by inserting a horizon. After this, the composition became much easier to work with. That new formatting and the hint in the original text – of the ice melting in the midday Italian sun – provided the impetus to express peoples’ general concerns about the planet and, of course, the melting ice caps. Then the lines performed their dance of sorts. And the colours and tones of sun and shadow on ice appeared a bit. I am sure there is much more to extract from this small image and will possibly return to it in the future. For now this painting has become itself and stands alone, albeit at the head of several discarded versions
About Mary
I trained as a painter, and Medical Artist. On retiring from working to other people’s briefs, I wanted to return to my first love – abstraction. My daily amblings around where I live provide the visual and physical , sometimes emotional, rhythms and forms which emerge in my current drawing and painting. When drawing, the pencil has freedom to go where it wants on the page, and the colours dictate what and where they want to be. In this way, as in my daily walks, all sorts of new delights are discovered.In giving up control to my materials, I am not giving up my influence nor my ownership of the results.
The lines and colours have been very well-trained over the years and understand a responsibility to aesthetics as well as our relationship to a multicultural art history. This might sound a bit fanciful, but it is how I feel about my practice. Over many years I have worked to commission, taught, exhibited and sold. I feel that only now , as the head of this ‘team’, am I any closer to becoming an artist.
Link to Mary’s Art Aviso profile HERE
Mary was provided with the following page from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia:
Volume 4
The story of the world and it’s peoples.
Nature builds an Arch.
Personally, I love the original photograph for its dramatic subject matter and hints of scale, as well as what can be read in it. It was not, however, going to be a cushy number. And it involved working from yet another brief! After working on and looking at it for a week or so, I wrote , ” I just have yet to find my place, grip and viewpoint on it!”
My translation from the photo of the original Ice Arch required me temporarily to ignore the portrait configuration of the page and to move back into my usual square format. I realized this could be achieved by inserting a horizon. After this, the composition became much easier to work with. That new formatting and the hint in the original text – of the ice melting in the midday Italian sun – provided the impetus to express peoples’ general concerns about the planet and, of course, the melting ice caps. Then the lines performed their dance of sorts. And the colours and tones of sun and shadow on ice appeared a bit. I am sure there is much more to extract from this small image and will possibly return to it in the future. For now this painting has become itself and stands alone, albeit at the head of several discarded versions
About Mary
I trained as a painter, and Medical Artist. On retiring from working to other people’s briefs, I wanted to return to my first love – abstraction. My daily amblings around where I live provide the visual and physical , sometimes emotional, rhythms and forms which emerge in my current drawing and painting. When drawing, the pencil has freedom to go where it wants on the page, and the colours dictate what and where they want to be. In this way, as in my daily walks, all sorts of new delights are discovered.In giving up control to my materials, I am not giving up my influence nor my ownership of the results.
The lines and colours have been very well-trained over the years and understand a responsibility to aesthetics as well as our relationship to a multicultural art history. This might sound a bit fanciful, but it is how I feel about my practice. Over many years I have worked to commission, taught, exhibited and sold. I feel that only now , as the head of this ‘team’, am I any closer to becoming an artist.
Link to Mary’s Art Aviso profile HERE
Mary was provided with the following page from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia:
Volume 4
The story of the world and it’s peoples.
Nature builds an Arch.
Artist:
Mary HarrisonMedium:
Watercolour on Khadi paperDimensions:
A4Price:
245 EUR