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
Thursday, 30 October 2014
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
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...
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.....
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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
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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
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
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...
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
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
Monday, 5 April 2010
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....
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...
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