SOME MORE SMALL SQUARE ACRYLIC PAINTINGS - DECEMBER 2015

Following on from my recent acrylic paintings of brutalist, concrete, urban structures, here's a few more, which were taken from small areas of the existing paintings already completed. I think the size is 10 X 10cm.

Square painting #1. Acrylic painting on stretched canvas. Julie Clarke (c) 2015

Square painting #2. Acrylic painting on stretched canvas. Julie Clarke (c) 2015

Square painting #3. Acrylic painting on stretched canvas. Julie Clarke (c) 2015

FULL MOON ON CHRISTMAS DAY - A RARE PHENOMENON

I hope that everyone enjoyed Christmas Day, I did even though I can't say I liked the heat. Thanks to my family and extended family for making the day great. I was lucky enough to see a rare phenomenon, which was the full moon on the evening of Christmas Day. The last time this was seen was on Christmas Day was in 1977 when my son was born. The next one has been predicted for 2034. Anyway, here's my hand held digital photograph of that lovely moon, with rabbit ears, or face, whatever way you look at it, it's beautiful.

Full moon, Christmas Day 2015. Photo: Julie Clarke

Looking at Turner

I've done so many transparent glazes in this acrylic painting that it looks to me like it was executed with watercolor.  I've called it 'Looking at Turner' and it is, of course, inspired by his 1830 oil painting entitled 'The Evening Star', dimensions 91.1 x 122.6 cm, a painting quite a lot larger than my painting below, which is 40 X 50 cm. The colors on my original painting are not as bright as this digital reproduction, but you get the idea. I'm not sure where I'll go from here. Perhaps I should just have a rest - Christmas and all that, and then proceed as one does. I am hoping to do another blog entry before Christmas, until then...

Looking at Turner. Acrylic painting on stretched canvas. Julie Clarke (c) 2015

December painting

This is one of the new paintings I've been constructing around urban structures and the ever present, expansive space of transforming ether. I've three paintings in progress & the last one I've been working on is simply sea, sand and sky - a homage to William Turner's The Evening Star (1830), which I've been looking at over the past week. I've taken the image below from a section of the background of a photograph I took at St. Kilda Beach last year, although I've been told it looks Mediterranean.

Incendiary beyond the Esplanade. Acrylic on canvas. Julie Clarke (c) Dec 2015

LIGNE - Exhibition by Julie Clarke at Preview International Fabrics, Richmond

Considering the sixteen small, colorful works I have on display until the end of January 2016 at Preview International Fabrics in the Richmond Plaza I settled on the following:

The night sky like treacle creates shards in my mind. Julie Clarke (2015)

If you could write but one line to express a feeling of the city you may feel thoroughly trapped in the intersections and complexity of the architectural abundance that surrounds us. This is how I eventually felt since by using lines I was in fact writing with paint, however, my first intention was to express emotion through line, color and form, which lead me to investigate a minimal aesthetic - a skeletal structure of sorts that eventually gave way to considering the structure of bridges, those that allow us to traverse land and sea and conduits that bind us to memories, much faded now between that which has passed and that which will pass. 

Many thanks to Paul Sparks for allowing me to place the works on his walls. The shop is open Monday to Friday from 10 am to 5pm (closed for the Christmas/New Year period from 18 December, 2015 to the 8 January, 2016) and Saturdays from 10 am to 2 pm. Drop by if you are in the area. Unframed artworks include acrylic paint on canvas boards and stretched canvas, cut glossy magazine paper on cartridge and Fabriano and cut paper, watercolor, pen and pencil on paper. Prices range from $60 to $200.