Surrey
Art Gallery Exhibition, 1978

Portrait
No. 1
photograph,
air-brush painting, 1978
Artist’s
Statement
My
involvement in plastics and photography began indirectly. The first
photographs
were of sculpture pieces in opaque fiberglass. These pieces were
photographed
in various outdoor settings while in the process of moving my studio.
Later
I began to develop the subsequent photographs and began a series of 8"
x 1
0" illustrations. I then considered using a more flexible object to use
as
photographic study and came up with a 5" diameter sphere. Slides were
developed from the sphere studies and became my concern {or some time.
I then
enlarged the sphere concept into sculpture works using fiberglass
constructions
including sphere or discs.
The
discs are clear, as were the spheres, and used similar to the spheres
in being
photographed at different locations. Later the discs were also combined
with
fiberglass into sculpture pieces.
The
present concern is less with the disc per
se as with the graphic image obtained from studies. All sculpture
pieces,
photographs and airbrush rendering being one and the same as far as
using
plastics to obtain a desired effect.
Rainbow,
1974
Cast
resin, wooden table, air-brush painting; disc: 31 in diameter, 1/4 -
½ thick;
disc stand: 5 x 19-3/4 x 3-1/4; table:
26-3/4 x 23-1/4 x 21 . Courtesy of
Artcore.
Willo-Wisp,
1974
Cast
resin & wooden table; discs: 11 and 13 in diameter; discs: stands 4
x 12 x
2; table: 27 x 50 x 24
.
Sleeper,
1976
Air-brush
painting on paper, 30 x 40.1
Sunset,
1976
Air-brush
painting on paper, 40- 1/2 x 30-1/2
Portrait
No. 1, 1978
Photograph,
air-brush painting, 29-1/2 x 37-3/4.
Portrait
No. 2, 1978
Photograph,
air-brush painting, 29-1/4 x 39-3/4.
Portrait
No.3, 1978
Photograph,
air-brush painting, 29-1/2 x 39-3/4.
Portrait
No. 4, 1978
Photograph,
air-brush painting, 37-3/4 x 29-1/2.