Phraser/Fraser Donachie | The Lumix 'dark dancer'
A potential phuture/future... Author for Crookid Stiks 'n' $tones
Content & imagery [in this project blog] will be provided by Paddy Hamilton, Robyn Banning, Oliver Schofield + Authors | Critical minds
*Most energies from Dungeness Open Studios are currently transferred to - Crookid stiks.. Until the show 'Is up & running'
Oil on fine linen - Oblique diptych - Dungeness style..
Small paintings | Larger intentions
* Oil on canvas 8 cm X 12 cm - Tiny $2 stretcher from 'Pearl paint'
Love your shed - *Keep the water out*
Oil with Beeswax and damar varnishes on linen - 30 cm X 24 cm
SOLD
Oil with Beeswax and damar varnishes on linen - 30 cm X 24 cm
SOLDEvocative figurative oil paintings on fine linen featuring this iconic Ice Cream van. The most recent paintings from the rest and recreation/private passions series.
Intimate and warm private space to view commissioned work within Marina house at Dungeness Open Studios.
*Enabling a clear viewing of subtle colour work and texture.
To commission a painting, photograph or limited edition relief print - Contact Dungeness Open Studios
View a selection of previous commissioned works - Here
Visit - Crookid Stiks 'n' $tones
Energies are currently transferred to - Crookid stiks..Until the show 'Is up & running' (!)
A sketchbook | open resource for the creation of a winter 2013 collaborative show in four showing spaces on Dungeness beach. (2 more than usual)
Address - Dungeness Open Studios, Marina, Dungeness Road, Romney Marsh, Kent TN29 9ND
Content & imagery [in this project blog] will be provided by Paddy Hamilton, Robyn Banning, Oliver Schofield
The mighty, funny & profoundly subtle Keith-Arnatt - * Inspirator for CROOKID STIKS 'N' STONES collaborative show at Dungeness Open Studios.
Keith Arnatt seminal - * NOT my Photo.. *refs for up coming-show.. *
L.A.B. - 'Allo' - Progresses | Exuding it's own non-attractive appeal.
* Carpentry phase completed to create an air of the... 'jaunty'
Starting to 'dirty things up again ...' after days of picky | anxious P & D
As I work in the studio this 'Snooper' comes to peer at me from time to time tapping lightly on my skylight window, needing to be seen...
Limited edition digitally manipulated photo print on 170 gramme (colourful/matt) Folex paper - Edition limited to 100 only.
A limited edition of 100 prints - Dimensions 42 X 59cm (A2)
Signed, titled with edition number. Dispatched with full provenance - Intensely colourful (the highest quality print) on a heavy acid free quality paper at an affordable price
[View a larger print image in a new window]
Price - £48.00
The postage is free for UK dispatches.
Compound linocuts -
Limited edition linocut prints - 40 cm x 50 cm printed in brown/black oil based ink on high quality heavy paper.
Purchase a print *Please specify a title on ordering. - >Contact us*
Price £60.00 each (unframed) * Discounts apply on multiple purchases *
The Dungeness Fish Hut - Very, very fresh fish & seafood...
Allnew & improved - On Dungeness Rd | roadside, just before the new lighthouse on the left.
* The Dungeness fish hut will be open during the week and weekends *
Once landed from the Thomas family boats - *It's fresh fish daily*
Follow @dungenessfishhut on Instagram for Catch List
Dungeness is also a working beach long inhabited by hard grafters making a good living from the sea.
As Doris Tart said " Don't Forget - The beach will always give you a living"
This project joyfully documents 'that which surrounds' - boats, boats and
more boats...
The approach/style is reminiscent of popular prewar 'tourist paintings'. These
tiny jewel - like paintings are made with intense concentration and a subtlety
which imbues each subject with a sense of celebration and 'longing'.
Our Cathlene
Small painting in the continuing series - 'Fleet Dungeness'
The Project celebrates a fine mess painted with a reverence for Daumier and Millet.
This painting is on show at our Open Studios
Painting Size: 14 cm x 20 cm
Oil with Beeswax and damar varnishes on primed canvas.
Sold *
linocut - Blank | Space
Limited edition linocut print - 14 cm x 8 cm printed in brown/black oil based ink on heavy quality bleached vellum paper with generous borders.
Purchase Print - The VOID
Price £22.00 (unframed)
Compound linocut example - 'Marina' postcode monoprint - *Commission your postcode in this format.
Monoprint linocut print - 20 cm x 100cm cm (length may vary on character widths) printed in brown/black oil based ink on heavy quality paper.
Commission a print by providing your postcode and housename/number as a title or.. a preferred title - All prints editioned as one of one (monoprint) signed, titled, with full provenance and sent unframed. *Prepared for display in the above composition.
Price £60.00 (unframed)
Dungeness Open Studios is revealed as one of Britains' beaches best kept secrets this Sunday June 17, at 9pm.
As part of the one hour long programme Nick Crane meets Dungeness Studios' fine artist Paddy Hamilton. Together they experience this wildly beautiful shingle foreland through, printmaking, conversation and storytelling.
Paddy Hamilton, the artist, commented: "This episode of Coast was fimed about a year ago - Nick Crane showed a great deal of insight into how I made artwork out of the very stuff of Dungeness itself, he was particularly caught by the honest toil required of the printmaking process in the main beach studio A.K.A. The Laboratory.
"The visit culminated with Nick revealing his own print from the Twister winch shed series on camera."
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Twister winch shed - Lino print series
In a digital format - (Download).
Designed for easy use on your computer
*Compatable with Windows and Mac
CD features - Alphabet, punctuation, numerals & extras
Download version of DUNGENESS FONT released under a creative commons licence - (Commercial copyright held by the artist)
Purchase download FONT - DUNGENESS FONT - RX12
Price £40.00
DUNGENESS | drift
A selection of photographs, paintings and prints by Andrew Sullivan, Paddy Hamilton and Marc Christmas interpreting the liminal, ever-evolving landscape of Dungeness in Kent.
2 – 20 May 2012 Space Gallery 7 The Old High Street Folkestone Kent CT20 1RJ
Opening Hours: Wednesday – Sunday 10.00am – 4.00pm Closed Mondays – Tuesdays
spaceseven.co.uk/ enquiries@spaceseven.co.uk
Compound work - From 'DUNGENESS FONT - RX12' series
Oil based ink on heavy paper in Studio 2
Compound work - From 'DUNGENESS FONT - RX12' series
Oil based ink on heavy paper in progress.
Space Gallery, Folkestone’s independent gallery, is delighted to host an exhibition of new works by three artists who share a common fascination with the liminal atmosphere and ever-evolving landscape of Dungeness beach.
These three men have been involved with the beach at Dungeness for many
years - ‘Drifting’, absorbing and recording golden moments.
The resulting photographs, paintings, prints and installations have been
developed through close personal encounters with the remarkable geography
of this giant cuspate foreland.
Their work has been made on the spot or developed over a period of years to
echo the beach’s relentless tradition of an overall slow melding of the macro
with the micro.
Together, their works reflect a depth of engagement and exploration in
translating complex issues of a (macro) permanent environment co-existing
with determined (micro) human activity and the weathered pathos of
impermanent development.
“Dungeness is like no other place. When Andrew first brought in his
series of photos ‘Longshore Drift’, we knew it was something that would
work really well in Space Gallery. Now that the show has evolved and is to
feature three really talented artists all with a different view on the same
unique landscape, we can’t wait to see it all come together”. Space Gallery
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Editors' notes:
Andrew Sullivan
Studied graphic design at Hastings, Bournemouth and Croydon Colleges
of
Art and Design. During a career that has spanned over 20 years he has
worked
for such clients as Shell, Ferrari, Nissan, British Airways, BBC, ITV,
Dorchester
Hotel and London Fashion Week. He’s currently the Creative Director
at
Blacknight Design, a design agency based in the South East of England,
which
he formed in 2009. He has exhibited his paintings, photographs in various
galleries and venues in and around the South East of England and London.
The photographs featured in this exhibition are from a series called
‘Longshore Drift’. The series observes the ever-evolving visual
language of
the beach at Dungeness through the revealing typography, graphic marks
and
textures that adorn the sides of containers, huts, fishing boats and
various other
discarded objects that over time have populated the beach. The images
talk of
a language of time through decay; a coded history from within the weathered
layers. The series also documents the survival of a fishing industry
that has
worked this stretch of beach for generations.
Paddy Hamilton
Paddy Hamilton’s approach to painting, drawing, printmaking and
commissioned work embraces an earthy conceptualism. The intention is
always to avoid the unnecessary and make work without complication
or the need for lengthy explanation.
That which surrounds us forms the basis for work. Landscape, the human
form, a shared experience, abstract ideas, colour and paint itself are
all worthy
subjects for exploration.
Resulting paintings and prints are thematic without a conscious style
- some
projects reach a conclusion - others are self-sustaining with endless
variations
on a common theme.
Born 1964, Kitwe, Zambia. Degree education, Chelsea School of Art.
Lives & works on Dungeness beach.
Marc Christmas
Ashford, Kent, England. Studied photography at Bournemouth and Poole
of Art
and Design. Marc lives on the South Coast and currently lectures in
photography
at Higher Education level. He continues to explore number themes in
his work,
shooting medium format digital as well as large format film, producing
a large
output of personal and commissioned work, in order to satisfy his passion
for image making.
This body of work explores the function and the codes of the Dungeness
community. My intentions are sometimes concerned with chance encounters
and resulting connections within the landscape. And at other times I
make
reference to appropriated objects of labour and their function to create
‘new stories’ for these objects.
Some but not all the resulting work questions ideas about the limitations
of photography and specifically how the line between photography and
other
art forms, in particular sculpture, is being blurred in contemporary
photographic practice.
Progression of a current diptych painting -
'Structure - Earth stacks' - Oil on linen
Dimensions - 32 X 28 cm X 2
*In Studio the studio today* - Stacks X 3
Sizes 28cm X 22cm X 3 - Oil on linen
From the series Structure paintings
Progression of a current triptych painting -
'Structure - Three day stacks' - Oil on linen
Dimensions - 22 X 28 cm X 3
Progression of a current diptych painting -
'Structure - Earth stacks' - Oil on linen
Dimensions - 32 X 28 cm X 2
'Structure element' in this series of paintings.
'Sky Hook | Ladders in landscape'
A colourful and playful painting on the subject of useful work and elegant solutions on the beach.
Painted with a fondness for Stanley Spencer and Philip Guston.
Painting Size: 28cm x 34 cm
Recent 'structure element' in this series of paintings.
Hand made - 'Menger | pot'
A colourful and playful painting on the subject of hand made tools
Painted with a fondness for Stanley Spencer and Philip Guston.
Painting Size: 28cm x 34 cm
To view a larger image of 'Menger' - Contact
Price - £300
Related paintings in a continuing series based on the brutal elegance and practical beauty of Dungeness beach before dusk...
Oil diptych painting in muted tones on linen featuring classic vehicles brought to bask in the light within the timeless landscape of Dungeness beach.
New light, land, power and machines.
The Project celebrates a fine mess painted with a reverence for Stanley Spencer
These paintings are on show at our Open Studios
Dimensions right to left - 17 cm X 34 cm + 34 X 17 cm
Oil with Beeswax and damar varnishes on linen.
