Sediment Shift acrylic on raw canvas 29 x 50 in.
Notebook
Notbook is an informal collection of ideas, paintings and photographs revealing the creative process of contemporary artist Chris Page.
Winter Walk Painting
Winter Walk Painting No. 4, 2017 acrylic on digital photographic print 13 x 19 inches
©2017 Chris Page
My favorite painting from walking in the Fort River Conservation Trail last winter. While I mostly worked with photographs during this time I did do a few paintings on some photographs.
Blue Painting on Sky Walk Photograph
I came across this painting on a digital print from one of my sky walks the other day and decided to photograph it. I am thinking this is going to be the beginning of an extended series of painterly sky works.
Blue Painting on Sky Walk Photograph 2016 acrylic on digital print 8.5 x 11 inches
Remembering the Incoming Rain
I found this painting on photograph that comes from a walk taken July of 2015 on the grounds of the Clack Art Institute. The walk was part of the exhibition SkyWalk. This did not get exhibited at the time.
Remembering the Incoming Rain, archival digital print 8.5 x 11 in. 2015
Three paintings on paper from the 'Eyes Toward Heaven' project
Eyes Toward Heaven III tryptych
2016
acrylic on paper
30 x 66 inches
Remember the Tao I
2016
acrylic on paper
22 x 66
Remember the Tao II
2016
acrylic on paper
22 x 66 inches
New Show at the BMAC
EYES TOWARD HEAVEN An installation of paintings, photographs and video by Chris Page opens October 28, 2016 5:30–7:30 PM at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center. Show will be up until January 8, 2017
Sky Moment I acrylic on canvas 6x14 ft.
Revisiting Two Painting Sets from 2013
Nine Rhythms Between Dark and Light. This is one of the early sky based sequences, graphite acrylic on paper, 9 x 12 inches each.
Six Sky Rhythms. This is an of the early sky group, acrylic on canvas. Each painting is approximately 54 inches long.
Sky Gesture sequence from 2013
Sky Gesture Sequence 09.09.2013 acrylic on canvas panels, 5 x 42 inches.
Originally exhibited in 2013 as part of Sky-Time Unbroken Continuities, Hope & Feathers Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts.
An early precursor to the twenty foot long painting, Warm Wind 11.109.2016. The painterly success of this piece is calling me to work similarly at a larger scale. Trust in process and incident will be necessary to pull them off.
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Remembering a painting from 2005
White Continuum 2005 acrylic on canvas 30 x 60 inches ©2005 Chris Page
It is hard to believe that this painting is over 10 years old. My sense of time is losing some of it's coherence, as my memory feels too complex to be useful as an accurate indicator of time.
Early Morning Sky Triggers Painting Memory
Waking up this morning (04.02.2016) there was a thin cloud layer in the sky that revealed a slight bit of light down at the horizon. The field like nature of this painting from 2012 came to mind.
Sky Gesture 1 ©2012 Chris Page
Sky Gesture 1
2012
54 x 84 inches
Acrylic on Canvas
Sky Gesture I uses a rhythmic overlaying of gestural action using the length of my reach as the predominant size of the gesture. The final layer, a very thin wash, includes migrating drips that were allowed to remain visible on the right and lower edges of the painting. In Payne’s gray revealing lavender along the bottom edge, the spatial field appears to optically hover as if not quite synonymous with the picture plane.
Ocean Triptych
“Establishing a personal style feels ludicrous yet necessary. ”
The photographs look better that the actual paintings.
Small Sky Painting—March 2016
Small painting acrylic on paper 18 x 24 inches ©2016 Chris Page
Small Sky Painting was created by over-painting an earlier painting. I am interested in the gap between cloud banks where the orange ground of the sky is revealed. The challenge is how to contend with the inherent figure ground problem of the atmospheric ground. The original soft orange of the ground made for a good chromatic contrast to the gestures using Payne's grey of the top layer. To see some other example of the appearance of this kind of sky gap check out the next entry Dark and Light Stripes.