Conceptual Art and Portraits

Poetic and imaginary worlds, for a new creative practice. Prints are £85 for A3 size.

Art 
Mythic Spring
7 February 2025 by James 


There’s a haunting line in Homer’s Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson. It’s describing...


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Art 
Geometry Worlds
5 February 2025 by James 


  Pure spatial intuition is the goal – Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution     Nietzsche...


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Art I Ching 
Waiting in the Meadow
5 February 2025 by James 


My favourite line in the Book of Changes is for hexagram one in the fifth place: “Flying dragon...


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Weaving the Rainbow
5 February 2025 by James 


For Conceptual Art I find symbols, assemble ideas, and connect it together aesthetically. Researching...


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Art 
Visions of Joanna
5 February 2025 by James 


There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it – Bill Viola   “None...


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Art 
Orwell’s Roses
5 February 2025 by James 


We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness ― George Orwell, 1984   1984 is a well known...


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Art 
Wild Geese
5 February 2025 by James 


Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain...


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Zen Flowers
5 February 2025 by James 


The Zen aesthetic is fascinating. Less is more, and encourages mental calm.


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Alfred and the Mermaids
5 February 2025 by James 


I enjoyed this Conceptual Art because initially I didn’t know what to do.


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Art 
Unpath
5 February 2025 by James 


Possibly my favourite line in The Living Mountain is “I like the unpath best."


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Art 
Wasteland
5 February 2025 by James 


“For you know only a heap of broken images” ― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land   The Waste Land...


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Eliot’s Prelude
5 February 2025 by James 


After The Wasteland, then Prufrock, I decided on T.S. Eliot’s Preludes for Conceptual Art. Lines...


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Art 
Hodology
5 February 2025 by James 


Word of the day: hodology – the study of paths, roads, tracks and networks (from the Greek hodos;...


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Art 
Morning After Night
5 February 2025 by James 


As the morning steals upon the night –  The Tempest   Night, day, flowers, birds and nature...


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Art 
A Foggy October Day
1 February 2025 by James 


  The best things, he always used to say, are put together of a night and vanish with the morning....


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Art 
In The Mountains
27 January 2025 by James 


The photograph is above the Aletsch Glacier in the Swiss Alps. Around 4,000 metres, so peaks below are still...


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Art 
Into The Garden
27 January 2025 by James 


Reality is neither tidy nor efficient, nor does it comfortably tolerate fences and fields. The real world...


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Art 
Flowers of Ophelia
10 January 2025 by James 


  King Lear Fennel   There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember....


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This Bird Has Flown
3 January 2025 by James 


  Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting. ― Haruki...


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Chatak
31 December 2024 by James 


Word of the day: chatak – the unheard sound a flower makes at the moment it opens or petals  ...


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