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So, a very nice thing happened on facebook recently. A friend of mine posted up a link to a piece of artwork that I had seen before and loved, I commented on it, and then it turned out that the artist was also a friend of my friend and so thanked me for my comment - since then we’ve become facebook friends too and mutual admirers of our art. I love it when things like that happen.
The artist in question is Chantal Powell. She makes beautiful and exquisite pieces using objects and ephemera to create what she calls ‘visual poetry’ – memories are preserved and narratives are evoked as the viewer pieces the elements together. Chantal is interested in the ‘emotional response to beauty and melancholy’ and romanticism. I find the materials she works with so alluring and I’m drawn in by every one of the works that I’ve seen. I’m very much looking forward to the chance to go and see her work in person some time and I’m hoping to make it along to one of the exhibitions she has coming up this year. Chantal also has a fantastic blog, where she talks about her art, her inspiration, other artists and much more besides. It’s insightful and wonderful so check it out.
Fragile © Chantal Powell 2009
The Lacemakers Guild © Chantal Powell 2009
I hope I’m not going back to my old ways, leaving a whole month between posts – aarg, but rather that it’s just the result of having been ill over the past couple of weeks. Only time will tell!
A lot has been happening despite my lack of interaction with the world. Mostly I’ve been preparing for the forthcoming Collectors’ Day at The Magic Circle in London where I’ll be exhibiting pieces from my series A Sage of the Stage, not a Beast in a Cage. This has in part involved me trying to engage more with things like self promotion, which I find somewhat excruciating, but happily I have found that on the whole people are receptive and friendly and one nice bit of news last week was that I’m to be included in the next issue of the online art magazine Cut-Click.
I’ve also started a new blog, in addition to this one (yes I know, seems slightly ridiculous given my recent tardiness) which is going to focus entirely on artists that use magic or illusion as themes in their work. My aim with The Fine Art of Illusion is to showcase these artists and, over time, for it to become a resource for anyone looking for magic themed art.
Do pop back later this week, as I’m going to write another post about my trip to meet artist Roxana Halls and to see her exhibition at the National Theatre.
Today has not been one of my better days, but I’ve certainly had worse. Partly it has managed to scrape into the mid range because of a sparkly thing that universe decided to send my way right in the nick of time. I had set an alarm to make sure I left enough time to write a blog post today and through random image searches happened upon a wonderful blog I had not seen before just as the alarm went off. Thus giving me something to be happy about and something to blog about all at the same time.
Nothing is New is just full of wonderful images curated from all over the internet, historical images, old photographs, ephemera – basically all the stuff that gets me excited.
From the post ‘NYPL OFFLINE!’ by kellyr (Nothing is New) ©kellyr
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