Reimagining The Past
This post follows on from one I wrote previously on 'Rinsho'. Below are two painting I made in woods in my notebook. With the art of Rinsho, the idea is to practice your calligraphy by copying, from books, that of ...
Rinsho
After my last post I watched a video by calligrapher Tomoko Kawao in which she mentions the practice of Rinsho, where the calligrapher copies the work of ancient masters in order to enhance their own skills. From what I have ...
Shadow Calligraphy
On Saturday, whilst at Shotover with the kids, I took some time - whilst they were climbing trees - to paint some of the shadows cast by the trees. I started working with shadows like these back in 2017 and ...
A Moment’s Language
I have long been meaning to work from some videos I made back in 2018, using a calligraphy brush and ink to follow the 'text' as it's 'written'. Here are a few of the resulting paintings which I'm pleased with ...
Arrival/Departure
It was almost 5 years ago in 2018 that I made these videos in a forest in Oxford and I’ve always found them entrancing. The play of the shadows across the paper has, for me, the feel of Japanese or ...
The Gone Forest
Two years ago I shot some video at Shotover Country Park (see 'Writing Shadows') and finally, this weekend, I had the chance to edit the clips together to make a piece entitled 'The Gone Forest'. The piece is something viewers ...
Tokens and Shadows
A while ago I made some sketches at Shotover Wood, tracing shadows with ink. Thinking back to these and with regards the work I'm currently making, I looked again at these sketches and applied the idea of the quick, gestural ...
Writing Shadows
On Tuesday I made my way to Shotover to work on a piece I've been thinking about for quite some time. The piece, about absent-presence, will, eventually, comprise videos of shadows in a wood, a few stills from which can ...