Notebook

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

Walking Fort River

Walking Fort River 08.04.2017

Would I have seen the formation of the leaves,
had I not first seen the clouds?

 

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.

Cloud Be Gone

Sky Ecstasy 02.25.2017

Two hours looking west at the Fort River Conservation Area, Hadley MA  2:10–4:02 PM

 

2:12 PM

 

2:59 PM

 

3:23 PM

 

3:28 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walking Slowly Toward Dusk 02.22.2017

Part of the series from the winter of 2017 using my old 90mm Leica lens. Walk was between 4:30 and 5:30 at the Fort river Conservation Area

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

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. 

Sky Moment I  acrylic on canvas  6x14 ft. 

Cloud Dance 07.18.2016

I am beginning to create images with creative passes in panoramic mode. The arc of the camera is like a single zen gesture. This group of images has become the basis for the show EYES TOWARD HEAVEN at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center that runs from October 28, 2016–January 8, 2017. Images from a twenty five minute period July 18, 2016 4:33–5:08 PM while walking the Fort River Trail, Hadley MA.

July 18, 2016 5:08 PM Hadley, MA

Five Ways of Sky

World of Form, Form in Emptiness, Approaching Emptiness, Emptiness as Void, Emptiness as All Things Visible. This is similar to the ox herding pictures often depicted in Zen arts.

Unfolding Performative Process 400 Million years and Counting

Unfolding Performative Process
400,000,000 years and counting

Soft Gaze Meditation Field.

Experimental work from several years ago using pastel text on a sky photograph. The upper text comes from a combination of internet research and thought awareness that arose during a walk. The bottom text is the optical technique I used for experiencing this particular sky. The blue paint is totally accidental as this was lying around the studio for several years. 

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. 

 
 
 

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