by Alan Todd | Dec 6, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Painting, Sculpture
EXHIBITIONS IN 2024 As 2023 comes to an end I am planning for next year. It promises to be busy. The large wooden sculptural works will be out on display for the first time as will many of the smaller pieces. Of particular note will be the installation at Palmer. It...
by Alan Todd | Jun 4, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Collaboration at any time is a matter or trust and mutual understanding. Committees, musicians and any manner of team and familial groups all manage it more or less successfully. For artists though it is a very different matter. Artists traditionally work alone. When...
by Alan Todd | Nov 3, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
I recently read a piece of critical writing about an exhibition where the writer described the work as ‘close to illustration’. The artist had every right to be perplexed. It seemed that there was a divide between ‘real’ art and a lesser form known as illustration. In...
by Alan Todd | Feb 6, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Painting
I’ve been experimenting with the idea of the film strip and working in both positive and negative. A film strip in negative allows for text to sit over the top of a dense tonal base. In some ways this is preferable to large areas of white. This is part of a...
