Sally Barron Artist

I have been working on a series of collage scrap books to feed in ideas in an enjoyable way that is also about recycling my older drawings and playing with composition. fig 1

I have a pile of second hand vintage books that I am collaging into as well as painting works on paper and re drawing my paintings I am currently working on. fig 2

In conjunction with looking at Diebenkorn fig 3 and how he formed his compositions It seems he tested them in collage as well as possibly considering these as works in their own right, or indeed just something he needed to make.

fig 2
Vintage NZ Atlas
collage sketch book

Painting from memory is a large part of the work I am trying to do as well as keeping certain text nearby to generate mood sensation.

small work
landscape thoughts
oil on canvas

sketch book ideas that fed into large paintings.
The idea that trees and light were interconnected with themselves and each other.
Many Spring water colours I did this year show branches ‘reaching for each other.’

layered drawing
acrylic, charcoal and oil

I am aiming to return to a simpler colour palette for the next series of smaller paintings and have been studying the Mondrian colour works bellow and how much they remind me of the Homage to the square by Joseph Albers that we saw in the Auckland Gallery ‘Light from the Tate’ show this year.

Mondrian colour studies
Tate Modern 2023

painting from sketch
ink and charcoal on unprimed canvas

Artists working in a similar Field to me

The work of Milli Jannides (b. 1986, Sydney)
Jannides lives and works in Stockholm and has been another new contemporary artist for me to discover. I find many similarities in our artistic concerns. Her impulsive mark making and sensitivity to text and landscape is something I identify with.

Her show Hot house at Coastal Signs , Auckland this year was a great chance to see the works up close.

Gallerist Sarah Hopkinson say her paintings could be followed like mazes…

“In vivid colour and sweeping gestures, Hothouse evoked what Jannides describes as ‘a mood changing like weather’: searching for the major and minor ways our interior, psychological states are made present in the physical worlds we occupy. “ 1

Milli Jannides
substantial accidental
oil on linen 920 x 645mm
2019

Milli Jannides
Thrips and Midges, 2023
oil on linen, brass feet by Andrew de Freitas
2400 x 1380mm

Virginia Woolf - How her work can help my paintings grow.

In her novel ‘The Waves’ Woolf seeks to explore the inner life of her characters in relation to the outer world. Tree and leaves are mentioned countless times. To her they were not just objects but ‘living natural entities’.2

I think about her writing a lot. There are many connections to the ideas that govern the kind of images I enjoy looking at and trying to make , and this is something I will explore further in the next few weeks..

footnotes

1 https://artnow.nz/essays/thinking-out-loud-milli-jannides

2 https://www.proquest.com/openview/585f9b207d105e2608a0348d991493f8/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=626450

“A Million Atoms” Virginia Woolfs Primeval Trees in The Waves.

Oct 18 Post 36 - Collage, sketches and literary Inspiration

Artists working in a similar Field to me

The work of Milli Jannides (b. 1986, Sydney)Jannides lives and works in Stockholm and has been another new contemporary artist for me to discover. I find many similarities in our artistic concerns. Her impulsive mark making and sensitivity to text and landscape is something I identify with.

Virginia Woolf - How her work can help my paintings grow.

Nov 12 Post 37 - Run up to End of year exhibition

Oct 13 Post 35 - Key takeaways

The work of Milli Jannides (b. 1986, Sydney)
Jannides lives and works in Stockholm and has been another new contemporary artist for me to discover. I find many similarities in our artistic concerns. Her impulsive mark making and sensitivity to text and landscape is something I identify with.