Tropical Fusions (Panels x 4)

Tropical Fusions (Panels x 4) by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch

Tropical Fusions – all 4 panels together – as a united whole.
The original artwork was an experimental art ‘potpourri’ involving techniques of drawing, collage, opaque and transparent glazing (painting), layering and then even more overlaying, cutting and dividing.

Tropical Fusions (Panels x 4)  

by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch

Mixed-media used: pencils – graphite, charcoal, pastel, oil, coloured; soft pastels, impasto gel (acrylic medium), netting, papers – rice, cartridge; natural processed fibres – bagasse (the crushed sugar cane fibre stems); water-based screen-print ink.
Initial work support: 300gsm Arches rag paper – original sheet size 770 × 570 mm – which was divided into quarters toward final completion, then mounted onto four separate canvas panels with a slim green/charcoal/ black edging finish (each size 385 × 285 mm) and grouped/framed as a whole unit.

Original work was:

• Inspired by nature.
• For the Group Exhibition: Cross Currents, 2002, Sugarama Gallery, Mourilyan, QLD.
• Also exhibited: 2002-03, Year of the Outback DPI Flying Arts; (Work was selected for the Flying Arts TOURING Exhibition Regional QLD.)
• In the artist’s collection.
• KMP©2002, ©2004, ©2014.

Inspiration/influences
Overall compositional imagery was inspired/influenced from nature drawing/painting studies direct from my local surrounding Far North Queensland tropical environment such as the capturing of:

• undulating strata layers, rhythms and patterns from the telling timeline surfaces of palm tree trunks
• Leaves – both actual and implied: of leaf fall, Native Hibiscus Tiliaceus (cottonwood) dried leaves plus others
• Palm seeds
• Butterflies and wings – both actual and implied: of the Cairns Birdwing and other
• Seasonal atmospheric elements and Moon cycles
• Earthy oxide palettes – of red iron, Indian red, yellow ochre, white, terra-verte, charcoal and blue – of soils, sands, sky, barks, plants, leaves etc.
• Vessel shapes based on my own fibre receptacle forms
• Symbology plays an overall important role in the total work.

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Tropical Fusions (Panel 4 of 4)

Tropical Fusions (Panel 4 of 4) by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch
Mixed-media artwork on rag paper.
Original work is mounted on a stretched canvas frame support.

Tropical Fusions (Panel 4 of 4) by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2013 | Redbubble

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Tropical Fusions (Panel 4 of 4) by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2013 | Redbubble
Framed print example

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Tropical Fusions (Panel 4 of 4) by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2013 | Redbubble
Card print.

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An experimental art ‘potpourri’ involving techniques of drawing, collage, opaque and transparent glazing (painting), layering and then even more overlaying, cutting and dividing.

Mixed-media:  pencils – graphite, charcoal, pastel, oil, coloured; soft pastels, impasto gel (acrylic medium), netting, papers – rice, cartridge; natural processed fibres – bagasse (from sugar cane stems); water-based screen-print ink.

Support: 300gsm Arches rag paper, size 385 × 285 mm
(Original sheet size 770 × 570 mm divided into quarters.)
Image = Top left hand side panel of four.

At RedBubble - Work Featured in a Group

• Collage with Traditional Mediums (25.11.2013)

Original work is:

• From the Group Exhibition: Cross Currents, 2002, Sugarama Gallery, Mourilyan, QLD.
• Previously Exhibited: 2002-03, Year of the Outback DPI Flying Arts; Selected work for Flying Arts TOURING Exhibition Regional QLD.
• In the artist’s collection.

Inspiration/influences

Overall compositional imagery was inspired/influenced from nature drawing/painting studies direct from my local surrounding Far North Queensland tropical environment such as the capturing of:

• undulating strata layers, rhythms and patterns from the telling timeline surfaces of palm tree trunks
• Leaves – both actual and implied: of leaf fall, Native Hibiscus Tiliaceus (cottonwood) dried leaves plus others
• Palm seeds
• Butterflies and wings – both actual and implied: of the Cairns Birdwing and other
• Seasonal atmospheric elements and Moon cycles
• Earthy oxide palettes – of red iron, Indian red, yellow ochre, white, terra-verte, charcoal and blue – of soils, sands, sky, barks, plants, leaves etc.
• Vessel shapes based on my own fibre receptacle forms
• Symbology plays an overall important role in the total work.

Tropical Fusions (Panel 3 of 4)

Tropical Fusions (Panel 3 of 4)

Mixed-media artwork on rag paper.
Original work is mounted on a stretched canvas frame support.

Tropical Fusions (Panel 3 of 4) by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch©2013 | Redbubble

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Tropical Fusions (Panel 3 of 4) by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2013 | Redbubble

Framed print example

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Tropical Fusions (Panel 3 of 4) by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2013 | Redbubble

Card print

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"Pathway of Journeys" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | Redbubble

Honoured to have my work Pathway of Journeys recently featured in the Women Painters group on Redbubble.

"Pathway of Journeys" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | Redbubble

About this work
Medium: Mixed media – acrylic, charcoal, collage, montage, wood, sticks, shells, seedpods, string, fabric, paper, own photographic imagery taken from my temporary sculpture installation work done at Brampston Beach, Far North Queensland.
+ Support: 9mm plyboard.
+ Original size: 600 × 1200 × 30mm

+ This was an earlier work that was completed for the themed group exhibition Landmarks, held at Innisfail Art Space.
+ Work has sold and is with a private collector, Innisfail, Qld.

Framed Print Example

The work has also become a Top Ten 'Collage' Challenge Winner in the Women Painters Group @RedBubble.

 "Pathway of Journeys" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | Redbubble Greeting Card

"Flow Between 1" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | RedBubble

"Flow Between 1" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | RedBubble:

"Flow Between 1" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2012

What:  Mixed media work: compressed charcoal, acrylic, paper collage on 200gsm cartridge paper.

The original work is on size paper 420 x 297 mm (A3).

Note ~ The space around the image here has been cropped down slightly for reproduction printing purposes.

Method: The compositional work employs a combination of gestural, contour drawing/painting techniques and has been worked directly from a life model.

About:  In the same life drawing session I completed several similar quick session life drawings that were all composed/grouped together on the one large sheet of cartridge paper. I later cut out and collaged what I thought the most successful images onto each their own larger A3 paper sheet  The delicate compositional balance of spacing around each of these images requires it's own problem solving.

My subject approach focuses on depicting dynamic energies through application of quick gestural, contour mark making and accentuation on spatial relationships ie. between figure-ground, negative-positive, ambiguity, unification, spaces between.

"Flow Between 1" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | RedBubble - Framed Print

Other Artistic Points

The principle of figure/ground is one of the most basic laws of perception.

'Gestalt' is a psychology term which means "unified whole".

Ref. The Gestalt Principles

SIMILARITY / CONTINUATION / CLOSURE / PROXIMITY / FIGURE - GROUND.

http://graphicdesign.spokanefalls.edu/tutorials/process/gestaltprinciples/gestaltprinc.htm

"Flow Between 1" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | RedBubble - Card

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Rhythm and Rhyme - Hidden Treasures

Note - This is an edited re-post from 2009-10-28 because Blogger (Google) stuffed up/lost a lot of my previous posted images and now Blogger error malfunctions are not allowing me to update them. 8 (

'Rhythm and Rhyme' by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2009

The artwork Rhythm and Rhyme was made for the 'Hidden Treasures' Postcard exhibition at the Cairns Regional Gallery (their annual fundraiser) held Oct 23 - Nov.6, 2009. 

Artwork details - Mixed media on gessoed board. Diptych, size 2 x (5" x 7").

Rhythm and Rhyme by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch, ©2009. Mixed-media, collage on board 

Photo - First night session of the work in progress in my studio gallery.

Work in progress in my studio gallery.

About the 2009 Exhibition
Approximately 105 invited artists were involved with all the works displayed in alphabetical order in single file around the room.  On the finale night Friday Nov 6, the closing silent bid time is at 7.30 pm. The last silent bidder's no. written on the bidding card displayed underneath the work will be the new owner of this work. 50% of the finale bidding amount will be donated to the Gallery.

Generally a fun social finale night though sometimes as witnessed in previous years, is mingled with some hissing and yes, even cat fights amongst friends and complete strangers towards the end, as people desperately try to get a last bid on a favoured artist's work or two, hoping to add to their art collection.

 Rhythm and Rhyme is available in various print formats at my RedBubble Gallery.

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Fairweather Man

Woohoo.

Last night I was immediately attracted to a facebook friend's post which simply went like this -
"I paint, dammit!" Ian Fairweather

After I read the follow up discussions with reference being made to Ian Fairweather's life and 'hypocritical' friends in some documentary, I just had to ask was there anywhere one could get this, if available.

And sure enough, as I suspected, the answer I got references back to the link on my blog post made July 27, 2009. ABC has now apparently produced a DVD of the TV documentary. Yeah!

So after ordering the product online last night, along with the amazing Shannon Lush's new book 'Stainless', I now (patiently) await 1-2 weeks for delivery of the goods.

Artwork:  Interconnected.  Mixed media on A0 size paper.
Work sold. In Private Collection - Brisbane.

Art Monthly - Review on 'Tablelands, Perimeters and Parameters' Exhibition

I have posted a blog on Artist Books 3 (Ning community site) about the review in Art Monthly (April 2010 issue) for the Kuranda Arts Cooperative Ltd group exhibition 'Tablelands, Perimeters and Parameters' because, besides my work content for this exhibition being 'artist books', I am able to upload a PDF file there and then make a direct link to the review file here.
One of my works Euca (detail section) has been photo featured in the article.

 Detail section Entanglement  from On the Outer (Tree Trunk Extracts)

Entanglement  

Detail section of On the Outer (Tree Trunk Extracts)

Gouache on rag paper

Tablelands view of Mt Bartle Frere, Far North Queensland.

Tablelands view of Mt Bartle Frere, Far North Queensland.

See my earlier blog here - for more artwork images and other site links ...

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'Tablelands, Perimeters and Parameters' Exhibition work and viewing links

Tango

Tango

Medium - Acrylic, canvas, plyboard. 9" x 5".

Grown in the tropics the Jade Vine flowers are uniquely spectacular in both shape and colour.

This work, completed for the 9 x 5 Exhibition

at Walker St Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, December 01 - 21, 2009.

This exhibition is in light of the spirit of the first Impressionist 9 x 5 exhibition

first held in Melbourne back in 1889.

Exhibition Flyer.

 

Australian Artist Ian Fairweather

I have adored and drooled over Ian Fairweather's lifetime of art work since ... well I cannot really recall, but a long time ago now - more than any other artist in the history of this planet with Matisse coming in second at this point.

When the very few opportune times have arose to travel to Brisbane from the Far North, I have stood in front of his work displayed at the Queensland Art Gallery, for such long periods ... soaking in the multiple layers of paint and their contextual meaning, then only to walk away and turn right back again not wanting to take my eyes off them.

It was one of Ian's abstract artwork images that adorned the front cover of the very first magazine publication, Art and Australia, back in the 1963. He was definitely 'not popular' in the general social community consciousness at the time.   

 

Artwork: Blue-Rhapsody (Ian Fairweather Inspired) 
 Nude drawing/painting study

Medium: gouache, charcoal on paper. Work has sold.

I have one only  precious art book on Ian Fairweather and his work purchased well over a decade ago now. In recent years there has been no books available to purchase.
I was very excited when someone had posted this ABC1 Television Guide link on facebook today (27.07.09). Yet another generation is being inspired by this man's artistic and very creative genius.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/netw/200907/programs/ZY9058A001D16072009T213000.htm

Note - Edited/updated 30.11.2011

Group Challenges on Red Bubble

Layered with Texture - Challenge: Extreme Mixed Media

The work Spiritual Journey was entered into a Red Bubble Group Challenge. The RB group set the challenge of Extreme Mixed Media.  (Click on this link and you can view a total of 14 entries along with the challenge criteria and the final voting results.)

Spiritual Journey by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2006

Materials: Mixed media - acrylic, pastel, fabric, linen thread, leaf, butterfly wing, banana fibre, paper.

Canvas support. Size: 8 x 6 inches.

Techniques: painting, drawing, collage, coiling and stitching, basketry assemblage.

The original work sold through one of the end of year fundraising Cairns Regional Gallery Postcard Exhibitions. Usually up to 100 selected regional artists are invited to exhibit in the show each year.

For those not familiar with the RB group set up, there is both an entry and voting time schedule put on each of the challenges by a volunteer group host. Those with the most votes usually get a feature on the group's front page and runners up, in the top 10, are listed and displayed on the challenge page.
*Note, an artist cannot vote for their own work and there are other codes of fair conduct to be respected by all those on the RB site.


It is a wonderful way to get artists involved, actively thinking about and displaying their 'best' work in various groups and for other community members too, to get involved, meeting and connecting with others.


Another artwork Sanguine Nude was entered into the Challenge - 2 Colours with Works on Paper group. This one had a much larger total number of 58 works entered.

Sanguine Nude

Medium:  Gesso, sanguine pastel on Arches 300gsm rag paper

Size: 76×56 cm (30×22”)

Description: Worked directly from a life model in my studio gallery, this work combines both drawing and painting skills. I have a love/passion for embellishing, building up a surface with both actual and implied textural qualities.

Also Sanguine Nude earned a Monthly June feature at the home page of the group Life Session Expressions. This was achieved by being voted in the 'top ten' of a challenge for 'No. Favouritings' - see here.


It is indeed a pleasure, after many years of solitary art practice in an isolated regional rural community in Far North Queensland, to have the tools and to be able to be involved in marketing oneself directly via the internet, to show work that would otherwise probably never be seen except by a select few.

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Previous post was about the Beast, now for some Beauty!

The work Dual Splendour (below) was painted for total right side brain relaxation mode back in Jan.2006, after a very busy lead up to Christmas retail business period. Usually I work in 'hidden discovery' non-objective mode for non-preordained experimental compositional results but in this instance I've allowed myself to work quite prescriptively here, with a predetermined photographic image taken from my recent rose shoot series.
Listening to my inner instincts I had a strong desire to paint with oils, to try out a warm/cool dual under painting approach and incorporate a build-up of translucent glazes for their rich luminosity. On completion it was interesting to note that people who knew of my previous creative art work habits had no idea I had painted this work. Being in my retail shop people had asked me “who was the artist?” (:-) I know I am very capable of painting and drawing realistically.

After university and years of a creative art practice and art teaching, creativity, with all its challenges and rewards, has infused and permeated my whole being, like oxygen is required in the blood it supports and maintains my life and flows continually, fluently through the positive higher energy veins of this universe.

• Original artwork: Rose Splendour
• Oil with an acrylic texture underlayer on stretched canvas support.
• Size: H. 675 mm x W. 998 mm.
• Framed with a large round gold and inner flat small navy blue liner frame
• Exhibited Feast of the Senses, Innisfail and was jury accepted into the Cairns Art Society Inc Annual Art Exhibition held Cairns Regional Gallery, where it was positioned in a prime position at front entrance.
  (Note of interest - I actually was awarded a 'commended' for another work, entered/accepted in the 'abstract' section).

Rose Splendour - by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch
Oil painting on a stretched canvas.
Work has sold.

 

 

• Background: Heavily perfumed these roses were so ready for the picking. A gorgeous variety of roses were grown that year by my husband (he goes through phases) during the cooler winter months of our Far North Queensland tropical climate, in tubs up off the ground (because it rains so much) in our rainforest backyard near Innisfail. I arranged and photo documented many of the different roses for future artwork reference material. My painting time and a rose series was stopped short with Cyclone Larry's devasting visit in March that same year.

• Concept: In this work, the concept of duality is explored at various levels, such as: in the division of textures (smooth and rough); the warm and cool underpainting tones used on each half of the canvas; bright sunlight and cast shadow, with the complimentary contrast of magnificent fleshy orange, round spiraling rose petals branching out into full bloom in the foreground, to jagged edges and silhouetted dark blue/green cast shadows in the background.

• Prints: Artwork image is available in a variety of reproduction prints, eg.card, mounted or laminate print, poster or framed, at my RedBubble Gallery