Notebook

Notbook is an informal collection of ideas, paintings and photographs revealing the creative process of contemporary artist Chris Page.

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. 

Test Post using Williamstown Storm Walk Painting Set

Williamstown Storm Walk—image2

Williamstown Storm Walk—image2

Williamstown Storm Walk—image1

Williamstown Storm Walk—image1

these two photographs of the same artwork I am publishing as a test to see which one shows up in google and to see how long it take before it shows up in google if at all. This image exists in my pagestudios.com site and may take priority.

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 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. ”
— Chris Page
The photographs look better that the actual paintings. 

The photographs look better that the actual paintings. 

Dark & Light Stripes 04.02.2016—a Walk at Wentworth

This a second set of images from the Evening Sky Walk 04.02.2016 looking west into the sun while walking at Wentworth Conservation Area. 

Small Sky Painting—March 2016

Small painting   acrylic on paper   18 x 24 inches  ©2016 Chris Page

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.

Returning to Blue o4.15.2015

While walking on April 15.2015 at Wentworth Farm Conservation Area I kept returning my attention to the predominantly cloudless sky for over an hour between 5:35 to 6:40pm. This group of twenty eight photographs documents this walk  (shown below the installation photograph) . 

This work was installed as part of the Sky Walk show in the summer of 2015.

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