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...

http://lessonsofsilence.blogspot.com/

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)....

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!!!!

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!!!

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...