Thursday 30 October 2014

Go to James Eddy website for up to date info...

This is currently on old dormant blog site!!

If you wish up to date information on James Eddy and his art work
please go to the website...


www.james-eddy.com



Saturday 25 June 2011

“Growth & Decay”, charcoal sculpture

“Growth & Decay”, charcoal sculpture...

The Lost Gardens of Heligan Residency



Construction phase of the Residency at “The lost Gardens of Heligan” starts next week, Wedsnesday 29th June, in the Lost Valley...







See the website for details and follow the progress of the sculpture on my Face book page...

Tuesday 24 May 2011

Experience Wine






A unique, artist designed wedding cake is to be auctioned

with all money raised going to ShelterBox

If you are getting married soon and would like an artwork as your centrepiece, this

could be the cake for you!Sculpted by James Eddy, artist in residence at Heligan

Gardens, it is being auctioned by Experience Wine of Truro on the 21st June –

midsummer’s day.

The project came about as a collaboration between artist and local wine merchant to

celebrate the coming wedding season in Cornwall. James was keen to learn

traditional cake making techniques from his father, a master baker and patisser,

combining these skills with his own artistic vision. The result is a fantastically rich fruit

cake, sculpted and iced to perfection that is also a work of art, full of symbolism and

meaning.

This a wonderful opportunity for a couple wanting a unique and beautiful cake that

will not only look and taste amazing, but will be helping a great local charity” says

Nigel Ede of Experience Wine.

The cake is currently part of a window display at Experience Wine and will be

auctioned by a ‘sealed bid’. If you would like to take this wonderful cake home, please

write the amount you wish to bid and your name and contact details in a sealed

envelope. Please send to: Experience Wine, Wedding Cake Bid, Toad Hall, 18 Old

Bridge Street, Truro, TR1 2AH. The envelopes will be opened on the 21st June, we

will contact the winner the same day.

01872 240058 or sales@experiencewine.co.uk

All funds raised going to ShelterBox



http://www.experiencewine.co.uk/index.php?target=pages&page_id=events&tabident=3

Monday 9 May 2011

new work May 2011


New work completed today, another style of Fish Shoal Sculpture.

A shoal fish, mulitples creating the form of one fish. In effect a ’fish - fish’ sculpture,

its sharp fish scales and fierce looks have earned him the name “Barri”, (barri-cuda)!


more photos on the website...

Saturday 23 April 2011

Art in the City, Truro Experience Wine...



The new installation, incorporating the “CAKE” & Turf Table sculptures, at Experience Wine in Truro is finished & is on display for the next few weeks!!!


For more photos go to ‘Installations’ on the website...

Friday 22 April 2011

Art in the City, Truro Experience Wine...



“CAKE”, Sculpture....


(two becomes one...)

For Art in the City, I decided to go on a journey and discover how to make a sculpture that was a CAKE!


My Father was a baker and patisser, who with my Mother made beautiful sweets for Christmas and many Wedding cakes...


As I grew up with all that cake, marzipan and icing, I thought as a sculptor I’d try and make a sculpture that was a ‘CAKE’.

With Mum & Dad’s help, I thought it was an opportunity to learn their skills, so that they wouldn’t fade away. Passed to another generation...


With Wine Experience I designed the sculpture to coincide with the current wedding, wine and Art in the City. A celebration of past, present and future. Of passion for love, life and a life time of skill and hard work... The design of the CAKE was meant to be predominantly a sculpture in an ambiguous textural style..


A story of note is that whilst working at Treliske Hospital Dad made a huge cake depicting a map of Cornwall, for the visit of Margret Thatcher. But lets stick to cakes and not go into politics!!!

Tuesday 19 April 2011

"Art in the City", Truro Arts 2011














“mono no aware”


The installation is complete today and ready to view!!!


At Truro Arts shop, now for at least two weeks...


Go to 'installations' on the website for a sneek preview and the explanation of “Mono no Aware”...

Monday 18 April 2011

"Art in the city", Truro Arts 2011















“mono no aware”, installation


Day one completed at Truro Arts!


The installation for "Art in the City" is taking shape....


In two days, using natural materials, creating a simple and gentle sculptural form to hang form the ceiling...

Thursday 14 April 2011

Cornwall Design Season 2011




A huge thank you to all the Malt Design team for building an amazing installation project...


Cornish Hedge...


http://www.cornwalldesignseason.co.uk/post/tumblr_3163487084

Green Foundation...










Completed on April 1st,
The Green Foundation, Eden project...

a must for any business in Cornwall!!!


Art in the City, Truro Arts




coming soon...


a new installation is being created at the Truro Arts shop,

River Street, Truro.


Part of “Art in the City” 2011


Installation starts on 18th April.....


arttruro


Art in the City, Truro




coming soon...


a new installation in partnership with Experience wine, Old Bridge Street, Truro.


Part of “Art in the City” April 2011


t t arttruro

face book...




the new face book page for James-Eddy is now up and running!



Friday 28 January 2011

Sculpture Preview Exhibition, Lost Gardens of Heligan 2010-11


Saturday 19th to Sunday 27th February 2011

Working since September 2010, an extensive period of research and collaboration has culminated in the development of a body of work. The body of work consists of approximately 40 sculpture and design concepts.
The Exhibition aims to present a review of a choice selection of these concepts and represents an opportunity to see the creative process in action.
This marks the end of a stage in the research period, over the next few months the creative journey continues. The artistic process is very much a journey into the un-known. Original and new ideas needing time and patience to take shape. Enjoying a journey is often just as important as reaching the destination...


http://www.heligan.com/news-events/event-detail/sculpture-preview-exhibition/

Friday 26 November 2010

NEW WORK... Nov 2010

















one of the products of my recent work, more to come soon!!

Friday 25 June 2010

New Fish Sculptures

New Fish Shoal Sculptures,
from Tiny to Huge!!!
Available at:
Alverton Gallery, Penzance...
Sea Drift Gallery, Crantock...
Fowey River Gallery...
'The Olive Grove', Perran-ar-Worthal, nr. Falmouth...

The Olive Grove, Exhibition Summer 2010


SUMMER EXHIBITION
PAINTINGS & FISH SCULPTURES...
The Olive Grove,
at Cornish Garden Nurseries,
Perran-ar-Worthal

Garden Fountain May 2010


another feature in the growing garden, Lelant, St.Ives...

Thursday 3 June 2010

FISH SHOAL SCULPTURE - LIGHTSHADE




...this is a first, fish shoal sculpture as a funtional lamp shade....
... the sillouettes, I think, are as good as the shadows of the candlelit scupltures!...



Friday 28 May 2010

Hi 5 Collective St. Austell, Fish Shoal Installation, May 2010






Rather wonderful evening at the Market House, lots of lovely people, making a sculpture listening to amazing music by Ryan Jones and Grey Dog...
I guess the process of making became the joy, (the sculpture took its own shape, not the planned shape), feel very priviledged to have been there, making, listening, talking...

Friday 9 April 2010

“the unbearable lightness of being...." Hi5 Collective Installation, an empty shop in Truro, April '10




“the unbearable lightness of being...."



(book title only by Milan Kundera) .....




...most of us at some point feel trapped in life, lost, perhaps sad, misunderstood, or just empty like an empty shop.


More often than not we blame something other than ourselves... We maybe feel trapped in a relationship or a job, yet at the same time we can be free & content in other areas of life. Sometimes though we can be just unhappy in life, not knowing our place...



....to feel light as a feather, to feel free. To find this place at some point we find we have to travel into our deep selves, to not dance the night away for release... But in the silence of the night, to fight through the brambles of our fears, our guilt, our unhappiness, our feelings of being trapped to find our own unique light in the cupboard of our soul and let it set us free...



James Eddy

Friday 2 April 2010

Online Painting Exhibition April 2010





the New Painting Collection has arrived!!!!!!

Visit www.james-eddy.com

for the updated website...



see the 29th September 09 blog post below for more information on the paintings....

Hi5 Collective Exhibition @ Art Truro April 2010


Art Truro Exhibition @ 'Wine Experience', April 2010




Truro Arts Fair

April to June 2010

Exhibition of select

Paintings and Fish shoal Sculptures...

At the "WINE EXPERIENCE" shop


(behind the cathedral, Old Bridge St.)


Sculpture Exhibition April 2010


"The Olive Grove"
Wood and Stone,
Sculpture Exhibition now on!!!
April 2010
Cornwall Garden Nurseries,
Perran-ar-worthal
past the Norway Inn on the way to Falmouth....

Tuesday 12 January 2010

Sculptural Furniture...




My most recent work!
Two sculptures completed over the christmas period, as functional sculpture...
The function being two bed posts, I also made the bed,
and a small table!
I even tied my own shoes laces today too!!



Saturday 7 November 2009

the new website... 2009



so here it is!


after a 'few' years of waiting & searching...
the all new first website, warts & all...




www.james-eddy.com


'lessons of silence', sketchbook



'Lessons of Silence',

an online sketch book project, which is simply a recording in photographs of things & places I see which capture my interest and inspire me. The poetry is a picture in words of my thoughts...

Sunday 20 September 2009

NEW COLLECTION OF PAINTINGS

A body of my work is nearing a stage of completion....

The theme of these paintings has been ever present in my life...

And no doubt i will continue to paint the sea throughout my career...

However after this collection i hope to explore different approaches to the subject and develop my techniques further....

I started exploring this current body of work in 2006, I wished to express the same simple textures and intuitive mark making which comes more naturally to me in sculpture.
Perhaps as a sculptor who paints, rather than a painter who sculpts..

The subject matter, the sea, was not chosen conciously, although it is a constant in my life and a passion...

The unconciousness of the acts of painting became more obvious as i understood the connections between the painting and ongoing deep explorations of my own inner self...
This mostly occurred whilst living at Gwithian in the depths of winter...

The layers of paint and the obsession with prussian blue....
The textures, the use of palette knife and the movement....

The unconcious choice of the sea as subject matter seems to be a reflection and an expression of the exploration of the inner, deep and hidden depths of the psyche....

Perhaps a title for the collection might be "Hidden Depths"

I aim to finish the collection in the New Year (2010)....

Saturday 19 September 2009

REED INSTALLATION, hi5 collective exhibition


Ready for the hi5 closing party, 25th September...
After the exhibition closes the Reeds will be re-used in further sculptures and projects...
maybe i will find how to tease reeds into their best visual effect, that isnt thatching!!!!

Thursday 17 September 2009

INSTALLATION, Hi 5 COLLECTIVE


As a guest sculptor at the Hi 5 collective exhibition in an empty shop in Truro, I have been invited to create a sculpture installation....
Part of the brief concerned changing context of the space, making what once was a a shop a new place full of change and aspiration....
I decided to fill the most obvious empty space, the ceiling....
Limited by time and budget (£10!), I chose to use natural materials to create an intuitive and expressive form...
After much deliberation and different exploration of materials easily available, I stumbled upon a reed bed which provided the smile of inspiration...
In bringing natural materials into an empty shop I hope to share a little of the spirit of nature and human endeavor & creativity....
The picture shows the first two days work...
The sculpture will hopefully be finished for the closing party on the evening of Friday 25th September...
All invited 6 til late!!!

Monday 14 September 2009

THERE'S ALWAYS ONE THAT SWIMS THE OTHER WAY......


There is always one that swims the other way...
Trying to live ones life by ones values & beliefs, and not by the accepted unquestioned norms, can feel like swimming the wrong way, against the shoal...
It takes courage, determination & hardwork to live as you believe, to question why we live as we do, to swim against the flow....

SHADOWS...



Shadows...
The ambiguous darkness that gives light its life...
Without one there would not be the other...
Painters & architects, amongst others, more often than not hold dear to the holy grail of light...
Shadows hold so much mystery and life, they symbolise a side of life & a part of the human psyche much neglected...
The mesmeric soulful connection of watching a fire at night...
The creation of the fish shoals was not only intended for the light they naturally bring during the day,
but predominantly for the beautiful moving shadows cast by a single flickering candle across a ceiling on long winter nights...
These ideas have been explored during many long winter nights spent in a chalet on Gwithian Towans. The place where i grew up listening to the sea, the wind and the rain upon the roof...