UGLINESS IS IN A WAY SUPERIOR TO BEAUTY..,
.., because it lasts… Just over a week to go to ‘independence day’ and the deadline which was to bring about a new body for me and two paintings ready to expose to the unsuspecting gallery owners of Warsaw and Berlin, and neither has a cat-in-hell’s-chance of being realised on time – Both aspects are coming along nicely without doubt, but it’s also interesting to note that, although in their current state one mirrors the other in hideousness, they differ so much in that one resembles a horror show, the other a vision of godliness.
It’s true; although my target weight of 80 kilos is only 2 kilos away and might just be possible, though I doubt it, I am however fairly proud of the fact that I’ve kept up my early morning runs for exactly seven weeks now; but dropping from 90 kilos to my current weight of 82, although promising, has ironically left my body looking rather peculiar to say the least! I can’t exactly pinpoint where the fat’s been shed, but what is left is a much fitter fella with a belly and man boobs to be sick over! As we all know, these particular bits of flab seem always to be the last to shift, so at this rate I’ve got at least another two to three months of simply looking daft!
OFTEN USING MYSELF AS A MODEL, ‘DAFT’ ISN’T HOW THE PAINTINGS ARE LOOKING HOWEVER…
… and the last couple of months work, although in retrospect the deadline I gave myself was just a bit stupid, is most definitely on track … I can honestly say, since my mother’s death almost two years ago now, that apart from the small show in Białystok at the beginning of the year, this is the first time that painting is beginning to make sense – With two, and hopefully three 120 X 100’s on the go soon, and with Dominika around to reassure me not to panic about finishing stuff off but simply to concentrate on painting and knout else, this is exactly the advice I’m following… What we have in consequence IS a return to a certain amount of narrative and more importantly the figure, and it’s starting to look pretty god-dam good…
‘Man with shifty hands and rubber neck’ (Working Title) is well on its way and is free of any of the less unaffected way I have approached the figure in the past – Good thing too, as I believe this liberates the use of narrative. Anyway, all going well, if not a bit slower than planned, but that aside, and I’m truly excited about what is developing…
AND ALSO PERHAPS SOMETHING TO GET EXCITED ABOUT HERE…
Anna Tomaszuk – ‘matka i córka’ - Oil on Canvas - 100X100cm 2006
Anna Tomaszuk isn’t of course the only talent to frequent this land, but as I’ve moaned so often about in the past, good painters in Poland remain for me rather a concealed bunch…
What appears to happen here is that the art societies look after their own regardless of talent, with societies for this, and organizations for that being just about the be all and end all! For instance, although I was led to believe it was possible, it turns out not to be, and the only real venues worth approaching for selling from in Warsaw remain out of reach for a foreigner like me. One needs to be a member of the Society of Polish Artists to be able to do so, and while told this was a distinct possibility, it turned out to be nothing of the sort, as informed a week or so ago that eligibility depends on Polish citizenship! Marriage to Dominika perhaps..? Sorry, I’m not prepared to condemn her to such a sentence just yet, and in consequence, (if we put my own predicament aside for a moment - although I’m not averse to blowing my own trumpet), Warsaw misses out on seeing less well established artists from abroad in two of their most commercial and well attended galleries in favour of gobbling up what appears to be the same old boys and their amateur associates time and time again…
Anyway, before I lose the plot too much here, Anna Tomaszuk, a young talent without doubt, but a raw talent who, if she manages to avoid the usual comfort zone here, should continue to develop well as an artist!
Anna Tomaszuk – ‘Przyjaciółki’ - Oil on Canvas - 100X100cm 2006
Although slightly older, someone else worth a look here – Marta Tomczyk:
Marta Tomczyk – ‘without title one’ – Oil on Canvas – 120X100cm
It’s true; although my target weight of 80 kilos is only 2 kilos away and might just be possible, though I doubt it, I am however fairly proud of the fact that I’ve kept up my early morning runs for exactly seven weeks now; but dropping from 90 kilos to my current weight of 82, although promising, has ironically left my body looking rather peculiar to say the least! I can’t exactly pinpoint where the fat’s been shed, but what is left is a much fitter fella with a belly and man boobs to be sick over! As we all know, these particular bits of flab seem always to be the last to shift, so at this rate I’ve got at least another two to three months of simply looking daft!
OFTEN USING MYSELF AS A MODEL, ‘DAFT’ ISN’T HOW THE PAINTINGS ARE LOOKING HOWEVER…
… and the last couple of months work, although in retrospect the deadline I gave myself was just a bit stupid, is most definitely on track … I can honestly say, since my mother’s death almost two years ago now, that apart from the small show in Białystok at the beginning of the year, this is the first time that painting is beginning to make sense – With two, and hopefully three 120 X 100’s on the go soon, and with Dominika around to reassure me not to panic about finishing stuff off but simply to concentrate on painting and knout else, this is exactly the advice I’m following… What we have in consequence IS a return to a certain amount of narrative and more importantly the figure, and it’s starting to look pretty god-dam good…
‘Man with shifty hands and rubber neck’ (Working Title) is well on its way and is free of any of the less unaffected way I have approached the figure in the past – Good thing too, as I believe this liberates the use of narrative. Anyway, all going well, if not a bit slower than planned, but that aside, and I’m truly excited about what is developing…
AND ALSO PERHAPS SOMETHING TO GET EXCITED ABOUT HERE…
Anna Tomaszuk – ‘matka i córka’ - Oil on Canvas - 100X100cm 2006Anna Tomaszuk isn’t of course the only talent to frequent this land, but as I’ve moaned so often about in the past, good painters in Poland remain for me rather a concealed bunch…
What appears to happen here is that the art societies look after their own regardless of talent, with societies for this, and organizations for that being just about the be all and end all! For instance, although I was led to believe it was possible, it turns out not to be, and the only real venues worth approaching for selling from in Warsaw remain out of reach for a foreigner like me. One needs to be a member of the Society of Polish Artists to be able to do so, and while told this was a distinct possibility, it turned out to be nothing of the sort, as informed a week or so ago that eligibility depends on Polish citizenship! Marriage to Dominika perhaps..? Sorry, I’m not prepared to condemn her to such a sentence just yet, and in consequence, (if we put my own predicament aside for a moment - although I’m not averse to blowing my own trumpet), Warsaw misses out on seeing less well established artists from abroad in two of their most commercial and well attended galleries in favour of gobbling up what appears to be the same old boys and their amateur associates time and time again…
Anyway, before I lose the plot too much here, Anna Tomaszuk, a young talent without doubt, but a raw talent who, if she manages to avoid the usual comfort zone here, should continue to develop well as an artist!Anna Tomaszuk – ‘Przyjaciółki’ - Oil on Canvas - 100X100cm 2006
Although slightly older, someone else worth a look here – Marta Tomczyk:
Marta Tomczyk – ‘without title one’ – Oil on Canvas – 120X100cm
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