Tag: Paintings

Paintings

Dreamy Shelf Styling

Organisational Aesthetics

Write about your dream home.

When people think about their dream home, they often think about the broad architecture. They might also dream about the interior space, structure and design. But their imaginings often miss considering the tiny decor details like the composition and likely colours needed in styling their shelves, open storage and library bookcases. Instead those finer details are left to chance. Then what we see at best their shelf display is about arranging things neatly. And at worst the shelf seems to curiously be like an exposed front draw with tens (or 100s) of items drowning in layers of sticky dust.

This post gives a few ideas for styling your shelf. It especially shows you how to use pieces of shelf art to anchor the colour scheme and inspire what items should go on the shelf and how to artfully display them so the scene is an amplification of the art.

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Abstract Botanicals: Doing Final touches on Artwork

Art & Illustration

This week I was doing the final varnish and layering on of skins for my artwork while making sense of what the series should be called and the concept behind it.

This first series has taken me over a year to make and there are over 30 mixed media 7” x 5” (178 x 127cm) pieces in the series. I thought of all kinds of names to acknowledge that the pieces express the underlying complexity and tensions I see in organisational life, as I’ve gone about helping workers with changing the corporate landscape. There is an overall name for the series which is abstract botanicals. But..that would be the more appealing acceptable name.

I was encouraged to hear another artist speak of her work conveying the horror and disgust that she experiences with another phenomena. And I realised that this is what my art is conveying too. Thus although this first series shows bright and colourful, botanical patterns of barely recognisable trees, plants and flowers (apparently I’m good at transubstantiation, necessary for abstract work), it sure ain’t pretty.

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Botanical Mesmerisation

Organisational Aesthetics

Here is is one picture series for the product showcase, ideally. But these images of new pieces of work are placed here for now until I get my new laptop and can access the product showcase part of my blog again. I’ve already asked WordPress about such a strange anomaly, they said they’re working on it.

Blogging via phone 🤳🏽 the last few months has been interesting but it has its limitations. Nevertheless it’s a short one this week to give my thumbs a rest.

Main message is that I love plants and it shows up as if by magic in my art.

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Blue Sky Thinking to Create New Skins

Behind the Scenes
Mesmerising clouds 🌨️ on train from Birmingham to London

I got a chance to do some blue sky thinking 🤔 this week on a train ride from Birmingham.

The journey gave me an opportunity to plan some new artwork based on these pictures I took. I was also able to make connections to the paint skins I was creating.

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My Three Barbie Core Items

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I saw Barbie and I’m conflicted. I didn’t always approve of the film because I read it with a critical mind and having been someone that has researched in the field of culture and youthfulness and beauty I didn’t approve. But speaking as the person who teaches corporate entrepreneurship, culture and marketing I did approve. I admired the genius it is for future sales of ordinary Barbie. Look out for the news stories about queues around Hamleys come Christmas 🎁. So I have mixed feelings about it and they run deep.

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