Showing posts with label gilding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gilding. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Bruce Jackson, Australian Glass artist

Eucalypt Forest, verre eglomise, precious metal alloys
posted with permission of the artist/copyright owner
Bruce Jackson, Australia

I discovered Bruce's work on the web yesterday and with his permission have added a link to his site. First, the work is absolutely amazing, the play of the metals and the light must be incredible to live with. The fine artist has taken an old world craft technique and turned it to his use to create sculptural paintings. This is a swatch for kitchen backsplashes! backsplashes! this work belongs on museum walls. one of the drawbacks to doing private work, for private installations is that the work gets seen by very few. Bruce has solved this by sharing his vast visual inventory and knowledge with the world through his site. If you are interested in verre eglomise, and reverse glass with a contemporary twist, you gotta check out his work!
the title of this post is clickable to his site.
best,
deb.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

The WIP (work in progress) October 2009

Figure Series. 36x24" glass and canvas. full size pic, cropped, no flash. followed by flash, followed by detail, no flash








copyright debbie clarke, gloucester ma 2009

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Comp#2, a palimpsest

10x10x1.5" wax and aluminum leaf on canvas
copyright clarke, gloucester ma 2009

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Sockeye (work in progress)

Sockeye Salmon, oil and foil on reverse glass

the big movements are down, now to refine the details of the frenzied run to spawn.

the glass is leaning against my refrigerator door. the glass is so hard to photo. like the bowl on the floor providing a sense of scale.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Waxed Mirror Drawing



The Waxed Mirror

wax, bevelled mirror, gold leaf, silver leaf, pigment, light


This mirror was completed three or four years ago. It is never really finished and it is always finished in its light changes effected by, the atmosphere, the viewer, the surroundings. each time i photograph it a new work appears that will only ever exist as a digital memory. and this one is quite painterly.

copyright debbie clarke 2008, gloucester ma

Katy 2008


"Katy 2008"
10x10" oil and composition leaf on canvas
copyright debbie clarke 2008
gloucester ma

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Linda 2008

"Linda 2008"
8x8" oil and combination leaf on canvas
copyright 2008 debbie clarke
gloucester ma

Carolyn 2008


"Carolyn 2008"
10x10" oil and combination leaf on canvas
copyright debbie clarke 2008
gloucester ma

Karen 2008


"Karen 2008"
8x8" oil and combination leaf on canvas
copyright debbie clarke 2008
gloucester ma

Holly 2008


"Holly 2008"
10x10" oil and combination leaf on canvas
copyright debbie clarke 2008
gloucester ma

Natasha 2008


"Natasha 2008"
8x10" oil and combination leaf on linen
copyright debbie clarke 2008
gloucester ma

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Stephanie 2008

"Stephanie 2008" 8x10"
incised drawing in oil and combination leaf on linen
copyright debbie clarke
gloucester ma 2008

in this series of small gilded panels i am drawing from the memory of faces stored somewhere in my brain as a visual memory. i do not know the names of the faces i am drawing, when i draw these images. the names come to me slowly, then all-at-once. aha! this is Stephanie. the panels are small, about life size.

Monday, September 22, 2008

Work in Progress: Her shape


"her shape" 30x30"
copyright debbie clarke gloucester ma 2008
m/m: oil, chalk, foil, egg glue on canvas to be applied to panel.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

The Trapper John, signed

It must be done; I signed it yesterday and put the painting in the stacks.
"The Trapper John" 30x32"
copyright debbie clarke 2008
egg tempera, chalk and metal leaf on canvas.