Filling in the blanks

A collaboration     Mark Jeffreys & Konstantinos Leloudas

  What is landscape a multitude of interconnected spaces internal worlds remnants of someplace a haze of past encounters spaces places feelings caught and pulled downstream adrift in a lagoon How ends influence beginnings

There is a blackbird I feed every day.   He definitely has a family, maybe even two. He is heading towards being a Great Old Bird. The blackbird is: the nest builder; the feeder; the signaler; and way-giver.      

Argh, how much it annoys me and defiles my spirit, and aesthetic! To add white against dark... just let me wallow in the dirt and dark to roll beneath the low branches in the shade within the fleck of the forest floor Only then can I enjoy the view

No plein-air not for me I work from thought. Even so, the experience of making can be like the experience of being lost. To be an island alone in a room that is a studio Like in Solaris, paintings create living worlds that slowly become more like home despite feeling alien at the start.  An exercise in orientation, acceptance, and challenging the real versus the simulacra of things.

sometime worlds

The disruption of the surface through folds. A colour field made angular and pointy. I sometimes feel they should become flat paintings rather than painting-sculptures, deploying the artifice of trompe-l'oeil to fool the eye. But it's flat now on a screen; the real object more interesting up close. The idea of flattening these out to an illusionary spectre is less exciting, particularly as far as process is concerned. There is a tension expressed in this work that explores the essence of conformity versus freedom. The work wants to be unraveled, it's original rectangular boundaries disrupted and contorted as the initial established colour field ties to break free.

maybe, maybe not but good artist why not I was never a good painter because I didn't really want to paint what  a r t s k o o l  told you to  paint or was I even a painter? an education is sometimes rightfully about what not to follow but not really how to not follow... if you know what i mean particularly in the arts I only really started to want to paint things in a serious sense much later on, once I learned what not to paint, and why (still uncertain) BUT! the magic is in motivation - don't lose it! or at least don't worry, it comes back to you but you gotta catch it quick sometimes and have the means to do so, which isn't always easy.