Wanting to get better at blogging! + New Fine Art prints available on Etsy

I'm going to try to post more on this! Is blogger dead now anyway?! Are Instagram / Twitter / Pinterest the way to go? Is it all just a giant waste of time?! Who knows! Anyway, i'm going to get back to blogging more either way...

I've recently made prints (in multiple sizes) available of two of my paintings from the recent Over The Line studio show. Both of which can be purchased from my Etsy shop, yay!

Fertile

Rainsong

Finalised Rainsong (or close to finalised!)

Rainsong.

Walking in an ethereal earth

the cause you fell for far too deep

dissipate of any worth

In this ethereal earth

The feeling that you had to keep

For fear, for hesitation

for to save your reservation

Anticipation filled with doubt,

All you have derived

And all you tried to figure out

            In an ethereal world you walk

While someone else is waiting

In the space between two worlds apart

For you to keep your heart.

Rainsong brought him out into the night,

She danced on city river rails and curbs
beneath his skin.

Away from all the indoor lights, howling

deep within, the purple colours of the night

She found him.

Dizzied from the dust, that sparkled from her

breath. Untrembling he touched, a life that

breathed death.

A high hum coming from the sky, unsettled

him again- pulling apart, left standing by although,

She could not wait

Eoin Murray, 2014

I think this is finished! This was an interesting and very long process. it started out as an abstract painting:

The painting was based on Eoin's poem, Rainsong, I worked on it in it's abstract form for a long time before deciding it was finished, but then going over and back about whether or not it really was! I've been doing mainly portraiture the last while, and after seeing an image on Instagram which set off another image in my own mind, I started experimenting with it in Photoshop, layering over many different photographs before I found one that I felt really worked. I created a photoshop painting of this photo, to bring the painterly feel into it, and then got it printed onto canvas. I wasn't happy at all with the canvas print however! The colours were completely washed out, so I worked back into it with oils and gave it the vibrancy I first wanted. I'm happy with it now, and it's strange developing a new process, it gives me a lot to think about!

Balloons portrait

What I think is my final portrait of Eoin, based on a photograph I took of him over 20 years ago, when he was 4 and I was 14. This one took months!! But I definitely learned a lot.

Yayoi Kusama

yayoi kusama
Infinity mirrored room – the souls of millions of light years away, 2013
Wood, metal, glass mirrors, plastic, acrylic panel, rubber, led lighting system, and acrylic balls.
113 x 163 3/8 x 168 1/8 inches (287 x 415 x 427 cm)
Courtesy david zwirner and yayoi kusama studio inc. photo: maris hutchinson.

A good friend of mine, Erica Grainger, introduced me to Yayoi Kusama a few years ago. I instantly loved her! I love loads of colour, bold shapes and forms so she ticked all my boxes.

The above image from her latest solo show in NYC totally blew me away. I would love to stand in that room.

Here are some more stunning images from the show, I want to go there! The paintings are interesting but the installation rooms really blow me away:

Images via designboom.com and complex.com

And the totally amazing lady herself....

Update: More pics and a video have recently appeared on www.thisiscolossal.com/, it looks so amazing!