Start of 2012!

Well, Its time for me to start my 2012 year!

Every year, I always seem to do the same thing , I am doing a bit of planning of the year usually in end December/early January  but for some reasons. this year took a bit longer.

It is thinking time!

End of December and early January, I like to do my planning for the year. this year in particular, I am concentrating on getting a business plan a bit better, planning marketing , exhibitions ( as much as I can so far), what work I will need to do to make sure i get those exhibition right.

This year I am also doing open studios with West-berkshire  and part of it, there is an exhibtion in Arlington center. The theme fo rthat this year is "afterwords" which  will be challenge for me and I am really tempted to do a sculpture which has nothing to do with animals for once. So i have ben thinking about this for a while, sketching ideas and thinking again. I have few ideas but will see...

 I have been thinking, looking through my last yea sketch book, sketching ideas, and thinking again! looks like I am doing a fair amount of work in my head at the moment!:) i have some good idea and they start to materialize slowly...time to start working on them. The idea that i have this year are an extension of what i have been working on so far, the directions are still changing a bit but the fundamental of the work stay the same.

I have few new works at the moment and I am just waiting to do the moulds! Another work is also being made so you will know more about it very soon.
This year I have also the challenge to finish some of my old work! I have few pieces unfinished,  a more traditional work but it will be interesting to see how they benefit from my latest research.

keep looking ...soon some new works.....

Raku Horses -Horse and Amazone I

Raku - Crackled white

the new challenge: 100 days in the unknown! Day 50

IS IT ABSTRACTION?  (Part II - reflections)

It is quite difficult to explain the process that is happening at the moment with my sculptures and I don't think that "abstraction" is enough. For few years now, I have been concentrating to learn the "knowledge" of the subject, from anatomy to study of the movement. As a result, the subject representation( by that I mean the copy of the reality) gave my sculpture its strength. 

"For me a work must first have a vitality of its own, I do not mean a reflection of the vitality of life, of movement, and so on but that a work can have in it an intense life of its own, independent of the object it represent." Henry Moore.

 This is such a great quote that really helped me to see a different dimension in sculpting. I was concentrating so much on the anatomy that my idea didn’t manage to show through. I needed to strip my works from all the details to be able to find its inner strength. This is the reason why I moved away from the details, not for a conscious need to abstract but to find “its vitality of its own”.

See “Is it Abstraction (Part I – facts and definitions)” here http://marieackers.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-challenge-100-days-in-unknown-day_21.html