Author: carnegriffiths

Bond Street Poster

A new poster advertising a forthcoming exhibition of my work in New Orleans is currently at Bond Street Tube Station. If you get a chance to pass by and take a picture please email to me.
The new work from the Harvest series will be appearing soon in walthamstow village at the castle pub

and will feature a collection of drawings alongside selected work from the 4 100sqft exhibitions.

Battle – Piece inspired by floral motifs from Uniform Embroidery

During my time as an embroidery designer floral motifs such as oak leaf, laurel, and thistle cropped up continuously and they are finding a welcome place within this new series of work. This piece used the floral motif to create a false armour, with imagery that relates directly to the motifs worn in the british army and over seas by higher ranking officers, particularly generals and field marshals. The motifs also occur regularly in consular and diplomatic uniforms and are used to denote rank and status.

Rose – Finished Piece from the Harvest

Decided not to work too much into this, there was enough rose leaf and enough suggestion of the overall form to leave the outer pencil marks to describe the shape.  Again this piece is drawn from a reference image and has marked a departure from the automatic process, the leaves and foliage are all drawn from memory / free although I have been making studies inbetween large pieces.

This piece is worked in brown havana ink with blue waterman ink, tea and water on stretched bockingford watercolour paper.Rose - finished image

New Pieces from the Harvest .. in progress

Just posting some work in progress, trying to be careful not to overwork these pieces which involve over painting with layers of water / tea – layering the ink drawings like this gives the drawings more substance and a welcome introduction of colour.  I think most of this work looks better unfinished but it is always tempting to keep adding…

Sketch of Acceptance – work in progress for the Harvest

A new drawing on the go.. just wish I had more time to draw at the moment

Acceptance - work in progress

New piece from the Harvest

I have just had one of my pieces accepted for an exhibition at the William Morris Gallery this October, it is a piece that was inspired by my background as an embroidery designer so it was opportune that an exhibition should come along that is to feature works inspired by Morris.   It’s great to have some work on show locally,  This (and the current full moon) have spurred me on to creating a new piece, and I like the direction it is heading.

The piece below is inspired / influenced /byVorocchio’s sketch which recently formed part of the excellent exhibition at the British museum.  I visited this show 4 times and loved the energy of the drawings.  This piece in particular struck me as the plaits in the hair reminded me of the wheat sheafs that I was introducing through the work.  I am going to experiment more with the patterns of hair and foliage – they seem to fit naturally into the drawing style I have. With the 100sqft project so busy at the moment it’s good to be drawing again.

New lightbox piece

Tried a new technique today to allow more light to bleed through the watercolour paper – enabling me to select more transparent areas and describe light shapes – decided to make this ‘bulb’ light box – MOTHS – which appear as the bulb is switched on.

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New work from the Antigonish Series

Taking inspiration from the well-known poem by Hughes Mearns

Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish he’d go away…

A series based on our curiosities.. Victoriana – the unseen, secrecy and  obsession.

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Venue for arts trail

I have been fortunate enough to secure the Luna Lounge venue for the Arts trail in Leytonstone which has distinct advantages for the lightbox work I am now producing – Firstly there are 3 or 4 large scale lightboxes already installed on the walls of the Luna Lounge which I can slip work into and secondly the lighting is perfect for seeing through the postcard boxes.  I have now constructed 3 new lightboxes to house the postcard project and am embarking on a series of work exploring the theme of secrecy and the unseen which will use a similar format.    Below are sample images of the three boxes in daylight and with the internal lights switched on to show through the postmarks and wording on the reverse – these boxes are currently for sale at £100.00 each contact art@100sqft.co.uk