Border Crossing Artwork in Progress - Stage Two

Wendy Grace Allen overworking Helen Stacey's painting.

Helen Stacey overworking Wendy Grace Allen's painting.

Apichart Pholprasert overworking Wendy Grace Allen's painting.

The Earth's waters are both boundaries and pathways for peoples, objects and ideas.

Fumio Nanjo

Quotes about Art etc

 

Strange Abstract by Wendy Grace Allen

I'm going to keep adding to this post with quotes I want to share with you. Which ones do you like? I have a whole book of quotes I've collected but they're packed up in NZ somewhere...

• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso
• Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. Amy Lowell
• Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. Oscar Wilde
• Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. Twyla Tharp
• Art is the proper task of life. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. Friedrich Schiller
• Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. Theodore Dreiser
• Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. Jean Cocteau
• Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. Stephen Sondheim
• Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies. Anish Kapoor
• Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. Gustave Flaubert
• Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. Jean Rostand By the work one knows the workman. Jean de La Fontaine
• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams
• Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. Tom Wolfe
• Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. Henri Matisse
  
• Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. Salvador Dali
• Even a true artist does not always produce art. Carroll O'Connor
• Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. Henry Ward Beecher

The above quotes are courtesy of http://www.aakrititalkart.com/.

The Earth's waters are both boundaries and pathways for peoples, objects and ideas.

Fumio Nanjo

Bronze Casting Foundry - Thailand

In June, I visited Asia Fine Art bronze foundry in Ayutthaya, Thailand to consider working with them on future bronze artworks. I've made a short video of bronze sculptures and the foundry. You can get an idea of the bronze casting process which requires many stages and a high skill level to complete the technical process. Bronze casting also requires a lot of equipment and workshop space. I have made bronze artworks previously, completing each stage of the process in workshops where I was privileged to be taught by New Zealand artist Paul Dibble.

By the way, I have no idea who the Thai artist is (I can't read his name in Thai) whose playing the soundtrack that's accompanying the video, or what he's saying! We were in a cafe in Phuket town, heard his music playing and were reminded of Bob Dylan, so we bought the CD to remember the relaxing experience. Hope you enjoy it even if you don't understand the lyrics.

The Earth's waters are both boundaries and pathways for peoples, objects and ideas.

Fumio Nanjo