tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40846259624076154852024-03-18T09:47:19.730-07:00WAYNE CHISNALL'S ARTWORK"Chisnall creates art that references such things as structure, time and Modernism as they pass through a very contemporary mindset that focuses on humor, transience, functionality and futility.”
D. Dominick Lambardi, 'Repurposing With a Passion', The Huffington Post.Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.comBlogger505125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-59377954529550229352024-03-18T09:30:00.000-07:002024-03-18T09:46:46.206-07:00Love Constrictor <p><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">‘Constrictor’ (or ‘Lesser Love
Constrictor’. I’m still not settled on a title yet) is the latest piece in my
‘Never let You Go’ series of sculptures; a series in which I’ve been making
hand-stitched (because Lycra/elastane is a bugger to sew using a sewing
machine), stuffed, fabric sausages that are each trapped within the tight
embraces of mostly elongated, rib cage-like, vine structures.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-NaxSMbqR4qBvEa-y5xGvJuQO-UdNk1ci457x49jQgj93HpDPjjUV95i7A6LR5uPrHOtXw_KBBBI62oIIsJ6fjutkyJ9f1OiFkfXy_Y1lqS8JlbRr3PDuGB0Neg-jiGf1-hbOK8E5LOa39TFk6bO_xkUGkiuFJE2cbPSTaNlbxYQmrIMovg-KThUZPIAd/s11429/Mini_Lesser_Love_Constrictor_pink_spandex_Lycra_fabric_sausage_organic_brown_vine_sculpture_artist_Sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7993" data-original-width="11429" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-NaxSMbqR4qBvEa-y5xGvJuQO-UdNk1ci457x49jQgj93HpDPjjUV95i7A6LR5uPrHOtXw_KBBBI62oIIsJ6fjutkyJ9f1OiFkfXy_Y1lqS8JlbRr3PDuGB0Neg-jiGf1-hbOK8E5LOa39TFk6bO_xkUGkiuFJE2cbPSTaNlbxYQmrIMovg-KThUZPIAd/w640-h448/Mini_Lesser_Love_Constrictor_pink_spandex_Lycra_fabric_sausage_organic_brown_vine_sculpture_artist_Sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Constrictor' sculpture by Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Constrictor is all about
fear, desire and growth. It can be seen as representing the fear of losing
someone, and of holding on so tightly to them that it restricts that person’s
growth or development, and makes them want to break free from the relationship.
Also, I just think that the sausage bulging between the vines ‘limbs’ looks
amusing, and I like the contrast between the vivid pink of the smooth fabric
and the textured earthy tones of the vines. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXPABbtiDpuXhR-l98x0yqweym7TDV-pw_IyKJ26M6K4MVZbWxk1xLil-xl4ofuah9yYGUL0r10A_8Fu05YNl79kfI-H6qOIhhGiiYT1TGjtGEWUS9JJDdjiPmB9PGt3cz2YLZeSRnjvWBF9ZH1KBdsz-wa0UD2tCeidCd_e_FE7N1Xig-jNCgtC3MSz57/s4000/Mini_Lesser_Love_Constrictor_pink_spandex_Lycra_fabric_sausage_organic_brown_vine_sculpture_artist_Sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXPABbtiDpuXhR-l98x0yqweym7TDV-pw_IyKJ26M6K4MVZbWxk1xLil-xl4ofuah9yYGUL0r10A_8Fu05YNl79kfI-H6qOIhhGiiYT1TGjtGEWUS9JJDdjiPmB9PGt3cz2YLZeSRnjvWBF9ZH1KBdsz-wa0UD2tCeidCd_e_FE7N1Xig-jNCgtC3MSz57/w640-h480/Mini_Lesser_Love_Constrictor_pink_spandex_Lycra_fabric_sausage_organic_brown_vine_sculpture_artist_Sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(2).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">detail of 'Constrictor' sculpture by Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Early on in the project I
made a small test piece using a cotton fabric but after I'd hand stitched it,
stuffed it, and inserted it into the vine structure that I'd prepared for it, I
found that it didn't have the right amount of 'bulginess' between the vine's
stems, that I was looking for. Hence the switch to a stretchier material.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy3u-KmmpfFnK-vuQ9mxFhvitolO85McuEhzlS0SR8S4IZnVykHRjhq3z3PVUqvEwboz9snQRjHaY55zT3r2FaUw4cHsSZdzkbKK_8exUm_n4CweqZ-5mNVU8a8uECWy7tjhicDNdyaa0JD3yR-vULtopAj4_0_OrDOguFkf7X2hSXrebL_G2WjfGv64Zi/s1701/Mini_Lesser_Love_Constrictor_pink_spandex_Lycra_fabric_sausage_organic_brown_vine_sculpture_artist_Sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(3).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1701" data-original-width="1038" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy3u-KmmpfFnK-vuQ9mxFhvitolO85McuEhzlS0SR8S4IZnVykHRjhq3z3PVUqvEwboz9snQRjHaY55zT3r2FaUw4cHsSZdzkbKK_8exUm_n4CweqZ-5mNVU8a8uECWy7tjhicDNdyaa0JD3yR-vULtopAj4_0_OrDOguFkf7X2hSXrebL_G2WjfGv64Zi/w390-h640/Mini_Lesser_Love_Constrictor_pink_spandex_Lycra_fabric_sausage_organic_brown_vine_sculpture_artist_Sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(3).jpg" width="390" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3 views of 'Constrictor' sculpture by Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-89311629220133184832024-03-18T07:35:00.000-07:002024-03-18T08:50:44.355-07:00Secret 7 Auction – Artists Revealed 2024<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Now
that 2024's <a href="https://secret-7.co.uk/">Secret 7</a> has taken place I can reveal that the 7” single
record sleeve I designed for the charity auction was number <a href="https://secret-7.co.uk/gallery/2024/167">167</a> of <a href="https://secret-7.co.uk/gallery/2024">700</a>, for the song ‘<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRtxogXp8sY">Skipping Like a Stone</a>’
by <a href="https://www.thechemicalbrothers.com/">The Chemical Brothers</a> (featuring <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck">Beck</a>).</span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNKqji4HNEc6QMB3hGasgxvazcrCdXd-jm64Z6Z6FPgFPx_Xw4PVU5ffipT4FKZHbQQWkpv4sVyUjuPNwrczZx8IRWqu7TNYwncLTiHAT4CdF7BFLvNJ3RCCpr1lbBf9U_2mxIjLK_J_m13ciopwuzoW0_geZSN4ct2qh56yHDyk956rOGTI1TianzWk9Y/s2220/1_Secret_7_inch_single_vinyl_charity_auction_2024_Chemical_Brothers_skipping_like_a_stone_artist_Wayne_Chisnall%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2220" data-original-width="2185" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNKqji4HNEc6QMB3hGasgxvazcrCdXd-jm64Z6Z6FPgFPx_Xw4PVU5ffipT4FKZHbQQWkpv4sVyUjuPNwrczZx8IRWqu7TNYwncLTiHAT4CdF7BFLvNJ3RCCpr1lbBf9U_2mxIjLK_J_m13ciopwuzoW0_geZSN4ct2qh56yHDyk956rOGTI1TianzWk9Y/w630-h640/1_Secret_7_inch_single_vinyl_charity_auction_2024_Chemical_Brothers_skipping_like_a_stone_artist_Wayne_Chisnall%20(2).jpg" width="630" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">front of The Chemical Brothers' Secret 7 'Skipping Like a Stone' record sleeve, designed by Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></p>
<p><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If
you're not familiar with Secret 7, here's the concept - the organisers of the
project take 7 tracks from 7 musicians and press each one as a 7" single,
100 times. They then invite artists and designers to interpret the tracks in
their own style and create one-off record sleeves for the individual 7"
vinyl records. The resulting 700 1-of-a-kind sleeves, containing the 7"
vinyl records, are then exhibited anonymously (that's where the secret part
comes into play) at <a href="https://nowgallery.co.uk/">NOW Gallery</a> and can be purchased via an online auction.
Proceeds of the auction go to <a href="https://www.warchild.org.uk/">War Child UK</a>, who help support children in the World’s
conflict zones.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0n-Atk8Hby5qr0dF-1LqV0fDlTSTCnPIChyphenhyphen0ZY7S9G2wtxV2arYvCbxSQxoDreTDEFNxKkRSnhiqOj0S6S-ftUDKBK7EVEbmdeO6cor_5jRsF0xd5Bni1y2Hqr5Cmh9B5TH741PGzZzeGi_xz_ET182PEA6QBw1nJTt_3_cDNAmwgz3sC15fJnsClKaJB/s2220/1_Secret_7_inch_single_vinyl_charity_auction_2024_Chemical_Brothers_skipping_like_a_stone_artist_Wayne_Chisnall%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2220" data-original-width="2185" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0n-Atk8Hby5qr0dF-1LqV0fDlTSTCnPIChyphenhyphen0ZY7S9G2wtxV2arYvCbxSQxoDreTDEFNxKkRSnhiqOj0S6S-ftUDKBK7EVEbmdeO6cor_5jRsF0xd5Bni1y2Hqr5Cmh9B5TH741PGzZzeGi_xz_ET182PEA6QBw1nJTt_3_cDNAmwgz3sC15fJnsClKaJB/w630-h640/1_Secret_7_inch_single_vinyl_charity_auction_2024_Chemical_Brothers_skipping_like_a_stone_artist_Wayne_Chisnall%20(1).jpg" width="630" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">rear of The Chemical Brothers' Secret 7 'Skipping Like a Stone' record sleeve, designed by Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p>This
year’s 7 tracks were <a href="https://www.aurora-music.com/#/">Aurora</a>'s A Different Kind of Human, Stop This Flame by <a href="https://www.celesteofficial.com/">Celeste</a>,
Skipping Like a Stone by The Chemical Brothers, <a href="https://hozier.com/">Hozier</a>'s Swan Upon Leda, Pipes
of Peace by <a href="https://www.paulmccartney.com/">Paul McCartney</a>, Lullaby by <a href="https://linktr.ee/siouxsieandthebanshees">Siouxsie And The Banshees</a>, and We Sell
Hope by <a href="https://www.thespecials.com/">The Specials</a>. </p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7YdoI6isQzH3aU0WxatiylXuy3Or3IHiX5HQM8wg03DkX-94NaWVFosC7VZTur8pQPAlTd0AcMmw51JD3lMU4jj36bNDecagto5FdaQHc3L62waYRzyNblKpACAjlusD1VRqp4Ff-jYUhSvkj1SCdnRirU01sQt6NxnSLABZgSK2nFCbJHQCpFE1lte7R/s2220/1_Secret_7_inch_single_vinyl_charity_auction_2024_Chemical_Brothers_skipping_like_a_stone_artist_Wayne_Chisnall%20(4).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2220" data-original-width="2185" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7YdoI6isQzH3aU0WxatiylXuy3Or3IHiX5HQM8wg03DkX-94NaWVFosC7VZTur8pQPAlTd0AcMmw51JD3lMU4jj36bNDecagto5FdaQHc3L62waYRzyNblKpACAjlusD1VRqp4Ff-jYUhSvkj1SCdnRirU01sQt6NxnSLABZgSK2nFCbJHQCpFE1lte7R/w630-h640/1_Secret_7_inch_single_vinyl_charity_auction_2024_Chemical_Brothers_skipping_like_a_stone_artist_Wayne_Chisnall%20(4).jpg" width="630" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">unused, alternative rear of The Chemical Brothers' Secret 7 'Skipping Like a Stone' record sleeve, designed by Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-77544957315902336192024-03-05T09:20:00.000-08:002024-03-05T09:48:55.093-08:00Horned God Orifice Box<p><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">This small box sculpture is
primarily inspired by one of my earlier sculptures – a wall-mounted, low relief
sculpture, simply called ‘<a href="https://waynechisnall.blogspot.com/2013/06/alumni-show.html">Orifice</a>’ (because of its carved wooden aperture) that
I made 8 years earlier in 2002.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2BBIRWx0gBA3KUAdVJ0EYyvPAyU9aJkat08SH2ROsLPkoYsH3N9yd67eV9PxwAL4-ji_3IT-TKAPWUkH1kIOFxbSulmmO1Av7czteXSIXFzHFaIC-OIWevMdK4Vkt-jiRMhWBuAnSmP_rRYRqBX_gFa_fe388_kOFESxeuED4AL4HL_t0AbQjF5-NgUSR/s2851/1%20Horned_Orifice_God_Box_Cernunnos_wicca_celtic_religion_mythology_carved_wooden_sculpture_on_Wheels_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2851" data-original-width="2348" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2BBIRWx0gBA3KUAdVJ0EYyvPAyU9aJkat08SH2ROsLPkoYsH3N9yd67eV9PxwAL4-ji_3IT-TKAPWUkH1kIOFxbSulmmO1Av7czteXSIXFzHFaIC-OIWevMdK4Vkt-jiRMhWBuAnSmP_rRYRqBX_gFa_fe388_kOFESxeuED4AL4HL_t0AbQjF5-NgUSR/w528-h640/1%20Horned_Orifice_God_Box_Cernunnos_wicca_celtic_religion_mythology_carved_wooden_sculpture_on_Wheels_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall.jpg" width="528" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Horned God Orifice Box' by artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The other influence for the
piece is the figure of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cernunnos">Cernunnos</a>, the horned god from Celtic mythology. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horned_God">HornedGod</a> is also one of the two primary deities found in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca">Wicca</a> and some related
forms of Neopaganism, representing the male part of the religion's duotheistic
theological system - the consort of the female <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Goddess_(Neopaganism)">Triple Goddess</a> of the Moon or
other <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_goddess">Mother goddesses</a>. As you can see from the photos, I used small branches
to allude to the horned element of the god in question. Even though it’s wood
emerging from wood, I like the way that the flat dimensions of the box
structure contrast with the organic forms of the ‘horns’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhacyRSOMNEKhsKYvJTcvkuVAqVrx3ITcGDpr9-BSHQJCuwuAw-q_yHWLHbP2VCITODqPI6E09qv00cz8lSdvJUaNPelz8Dq5onma0M6ZcFtid7IxaCDdCG-kHQBYkTgc7Xv1ma_Qf3tpNRFejg9WkLgUZHCJXRTkyxG9l6sxmL4c_k7s3_HT1oYia9CB7N/s800/The%20Cernunnos-type%20antlered%20figure%20or%20horned%20god,%20on%20the%20Gundestrup%20Cauldron,%20on%20display,%20at%20the%20National%20Museum%20of%20Denmark%20in%20Copenhagen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="800" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhacyRSOMNEKhsKYvJTcvkuVAqVrx3ITcGDpr9-BSHQJCuwuAw-q_yHWLHbP2VCITODqPI6E09qv00cz8lSdvJUaNPelz8Dq5onma0M6ZcFtid7IxaCDdCG-kHQBYkTgc7Xv1ma_Qf3tpNRFejg9WkLgUZHCJXRTkyxG9l6sxmL4c_k7s3_HT1oYia9CB7N/w640-h436/The%20Cernunnos-type%20antlered%20figure%20or%20horned%20god,%20on%20the%20Gundestrup%20Cauldron,%20on%20display,%20at%20the%20National%20Museum%20of%20Denmark%20in%20Copenhagen.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.376px; text-align: left;">The Cernunnos-type </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antler" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366cc; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.376px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Antler">antlered</a><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.376px; text-align: left;"> figure or </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horned_deity" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366cc; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.376px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Horned deity">horned god</a><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.376px; text-align: left;">, on the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundestrup_Cauldron" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366cc; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.376px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Gundestrup Cauldron">Gundestrup Cauldron</a><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.376px; text-align: left;">, on display, at the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Denmark" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366cc; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.376px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;" title="National Museum of Denmark">National Museum of Denmark</a><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.376px; text-align: left;"> in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366cc; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.376px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Copenhagen">Copenhagen</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Evolving out of a long series
of small, wheeled box sculptures (that were themselves a progression from my
earlier box tower sculpture, The City), Horned God Orifice Box is the first of
these small box pieces that dispensed with the magnified glass window, and
instead adopted the carved wooden orifice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvwwG0xrjXW8ElbOgjWzqlF4AI_-znjdWnUgBlTsy_cdQ8liNSzfGk1lnvOn8PHxjen_8OrC2NXqsPxdCXnEU5LUzgH0-F1bQWH7BWBtCT2WB_koFoVxilAl08xXO-HVetlGebmYN4vbvXo8x7y-4NXttUpCbq6-pL-0idCSD09PUgNL0WIiJHgCjgArvR/s2999/1.4%20Horned_Orifice_God_Box_Cernunnos_wicca_celtic_religion_mythology_carved_wooden_sculpture_on_Wheels_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2999" data-original-width="2638" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvwwG0xrjXW8ElbOgjWzqlF4AI_-znjdWnUgBlTsy_cdQ8liNSzfGk1lnvOn8PHxjen_8OrC2NXqsPxdCXnEU5LUzgH0-F1bQWH7BWBtCT2WB_koFoVxilAl08xXO-HVetlGebmYN4vbvXo8x7y-4NXttUpCbq6-pL-0idCSD09PUgNL0WIiJHgCjgArvR/w562-h640/1.4%20Horned_Orifice_God_Box_Cernunnos_wicca_celtic_religion_mythology_carved_wooden_sculpture_on_Wheels_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall.jpg" width="562" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Horned God Orifice Box' by artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As well as the obvious sexual interpretation of the orifice
element (as manifest in the top section of this piece), my main interest in the
device, lies in it being the portal between the internal and the external.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcAEHQu1-rcNKd0U4mL7rUjpMALIujtJHbordZwmzdYc7JD0XFSxF92hKpD7YknqlRGJ56UIzFm1atFqR3L8bAnuyuiliz_4zMnFd_NDv5JdXiLyqIpQ5__SViZ71hxlVSCDcpdjmhtG-YuZO2VsiZCW6fm7G8LZBVLl9bjFL5YDI_H145EL9PfkgsIQfx/s3000/1.8%20Horned_Orifice_God_Box_Cernunnos_wicca_celtic_religion_mythology_carved_wooden_sculpture_on_Wheels_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="2701" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcAEHQu1-rcNKd0U4mL7rUjpMALIujtJHbordZwmzdYc7JD0XFSxF92hKpD7YknqlRGJ56UIzFm1atFqR3L8bAnuyuiliz_4zMnFd_NDv5JdXiLyqIpQ5__SViZ71hxlVSCDcpdjmhtG-YuZO2VsiZCW6fm7G8LZBVLl9bjFL5YDI_H145EL9PfkgsIQfx/w576-h640/1.8%20Horned_Orifice_God_Box_Cernunnos_wicca_celtic_religion_mythology_carved_wooden_sculpture_on_Wheels_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall.jpg" width="576" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Horned God Orifice Box' (rear view) by artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The actual inspiration for the original 'Orifice' sculpture
came to me around 1999/2000 (when I was working as a cycle courier in London) as I saw a van drive past me with a puncture hole in its side, and I noticed how the metal around the puncture had taken on a strangely organic
appearance, not too dissimilar to the swollen and raised skin around a small
cut that I had on the back of my hand at the time. It's strange where and
when inspiration for artwork can come from. Maybe if I hadn't spotted
that van at that particular moment in time, a whole body of work wouldn't now
exist. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3VCntVcpRkG6Wbxenu0-_p3rOIZBnPlkxXTdsO201BhC-QnIV6lA5j4J1PfDKdH7mD4V226Y8zkm8dZAih9jKUdztBULYHIff3BCrqAhepNFhyRI6cxxZMlDIQraCg2Sfw5goQbFmD8-bEanxKwbbAysWBHCSmC4ZSTx7nTQN9IlUMVDcdE5zp9KwbMjP/s2869/1.6%20Horned_Orifice_God_Box_Cernunnos_wicca_celtic_religion_mythology_carved_wooden_sculpture_on_Wheels_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2869" data-original-width="2533" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3VCntVcpRkG6Wbxenu0-_p3rOIZBnPlkxXTdsO201BhC-QnIV6lA5j4J1PfDKdH7mD4V226Y8zkm8dZAih9jKUdztBULYHIff3BCrqAhepNFhyRI6cxxZMlDIQraCg2Sfw5goQbFmD8-bEanxKwbbAysWBHCSmC4ZSTx7nTQN9IlUMVDcdE5zp9KwbMjP/w566-h640/1.6%20Horned_Orifice_God_Box_Cernunnos_wicca_celtic_religion_mythology_carved_wooden_sculpture_on_Wheels_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall.jpg" width="566" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Horned God Orifice Box' by artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Title: </span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-ansi-language: #03FF; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Horned God Orifice Box. </span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Dimensions: </span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-ansi-language: #03FF; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">41 x 37 x 23.4 cm. </span>Materials: wood and metal. Date: 2010</p>Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-90025207453161376842024-03-02T06:03:00.000-08:002024-03-02T07:15:10.658-08:00A Brief History of Magnet<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ve lost count of how many exhibitions my toys tower
sculpture, ‘Magnet’, has been in. However, some of my favourite shows that
Magnet has appeared in, that do instantly spring to mind, are 2017’s </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">'The Toy Box: From Pop to
The Present', at the Civic, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, 2015’s 'Toys (Are Us)', at
the Crypt Gallery, below St. Pancras New Church, Euston Rd. London, my 2014
solo show, 'Dreams of Being Batman', at the Vaults Gallery, Waterloo, London, the
'States of Reverie' exhibition at Scream gallery, Mayfair, London in 2011 (this
one is partly more memorable because of the number of famous people that turned
up to the opening party, probably because the gallery was owned by two of the sons
of Ronnie Wood from the Rolling Stones), and 2006’s Royal British Society of
Sculptors’ ‘Contemporary Sculpture Show' at the Rollo Gallery, Islington,
London.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhufr0Yzh7976FSIrDwY6yz4NeMVjJv0dJgoGJx268PVJ42iOqzibuzcMjufVmJAuDXUDlvvbRWUnDXhOPmHvcpkoAfck9_fDXWjEh0-BMxRPUBm2ES_1t3CzGnhxDFrdtXG_Kt1w0otCsK3axlmb3gcxth_95LUyA474Pt58r8iZOJEvcBh4BX-UOM87ZG/s2705/Magnet_toy_tower_sculpture_artist_Wayne_Chisnall_Toys_are_us_Crypt_gallery_euston_london_art_exhibition.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2705" data-original-width="2705" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhufr0Yzh7976FSIrDwY6yz4NeMVjJv0dJgoGJx268PVJ42iOqzibuzcMjufVmJAuDXUDlvvbRWUnDXhOPmHvcpkoAfck9_fDXWjEh0-BMxRPUBm2ES_1t3CzGnhxDFrdtXG_Kt1w0otCsK3axlmb3gcxth_95LUyA474Pt58r8iZOJEvcBh4BX-UOM87ZG/w640-h640/Magnet_toy_tower_sculpture_artist_Wayne_Chisnall_Toys_are_us_Crypt_gallery_euston_london_art_exhibition.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">'Magnet' by artist Wayne Chisnall, at 'Toys (Are Us)' exhibition, Crypt
Gallery, London</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;">'Magnet' is part of a series of four wheeled tower sculptures (the others being The City, Book Tower and Fetish); each relating to a different aspect of our relationship with material possessions, and how our psychological attachment to large quantities of physical objects limit our freedom and mobility. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9ZfvGA0dGoSqlppIj_7ooZpBTrzqRNMWjSiYkKQo0rH32K14F5QfR3uTyIuzNXiKhgta3lKEQ5MlAM1d10h2yBM3kcsycnEtbhKJLJIfbeRdmw1Qgg39uxeUDiiBr5ImYTnBNm1-R_HlZf0Om3K4Va29pU0Bzvg1PfwBeJPg-v6pkQqelK8a8pe6jsVep/s1747/Magnet_toy_tower_sculpture_British%20Sculptor_artist_Wayne_Chisnall_detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1747" data-original-width="1165" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9ZfvGA0dGoSqlppIj_7ooZpBTrzqRNMWjSiYkKQo0rH32K14F5QfR3uTyIuzNXiKhgta3lKEQ5MlAM1d10h2yBM3kcsycnEtbhKJLJIfbeRdmw1Qgg39uxeUDiiBr5ImYTnBNm1-R_HlZf0Om3K4Va29pU0Bzvg1PfwBeJPg-v6pkQqelK8a8pe6jsVep/w426-h640/Magnet_toy_tower_sculpture_British%20Sculptor_artist_Wayne_Chisnall_detail.jpg" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">'Magnet' (detail) by artist Wayne Chisnall</span></td></tr></tbody></table></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Originally titled 'Toy Tower', I renamed my sculpture 'Magnet' after its first showing when it became evident that its powers of attraction seemed to work on children and adults in equal measure. On the first day of Magnet’s first exhibition the person invigilating told me that he had looked over to where my sculpture should have been, only to find that it had disappeared. Apparently four little boys had managed to sneak the piece out into the street before being chased off by the invigilator, who wheeled the sculpture back into the gallery.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: arial; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq-vBokidRDmEChWqfixFJIlafGMOGsF82TB5OsMg4o-g8SKvchPBRZ9JOkZ-Qb7Y6LLjstV-8lTlbBR7RQjzN7xOPXAHZPm6hB8I71MAItxNgCzI45G40w9PqleH-b1Vso1ELRUUidRMSYxxtut9gxDnc2RUvS8COBBIkVnxzVQ8XbfOpm2mmuFN17p-O/s4752/Magnet_toy_tower_sculpture_artist_Wayne_Chisnall_Toys_Scream_gallery_london_art_exhibition.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3168" data-original-width="4752" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq-vBokidRDmEChWqfixFJIlafGMOGsF82TB5OsMg4o-g8SKvchPBRZ9JOkZ-Qb7Y6LLjstV-8lTlbBR7RQjzN7xOPXAHZPm6hB8I71MAItxNgCzI45G40w9PqleH-b1Vso1ELRUUidRMSYxxtut9gxDnc2RUvS8COBBIkVnxzVQ8XbfOpm2mmuFN17p-O/w640-h426/Magnet_toy_tower_sculpture_artist_Wayne_Chisnall_Toys_Scream_gallery_london_art_exhibition.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Magnet' at 'States of Reverie' exhibition, Scream gallery, Mayfair, London<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;">Magnet is now in the permanent collection of the </span><a href="https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/2499211/saudi-arabia-set-first-ever-%E2%80%98black-gold%E2%80%99-museum-2022" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;">Black Gold Museum</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"> (which was originally due to open in July 2022) in Saudi Arabia, which
aims to provide a narration of the history of oil during human life by
showcasing more than 200 contemporary pieces of art. The museum, which is the
first of its kind in the Kingdom, will be inaugurated in partnership with the
King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Centre (KAPSARC) at the centre’s
headquarters in Riyadh.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXcmS8l6I-WPzuVag-PqGFp0liXh7VWkK5YgW5YewMRiV1Zi_70xYGTeYRmmCISnh6OVs3eJzwzJ8PUXyl7MHIv214_zba6OUkDaChdqFJ-XJTnPZBOTVq6zLUg-QK5bu9_2Qm_2o1RPuKTA_LqYO3R7-z8r8R8WHjzB56sCx59hFlYmtRaj0JLdXm8T3b/s1134/Magnet_toy_tower_sculpture_artist_Wayne_Chisnall_Black_Gold_Museum_King_Abdullah_Petroleum_Studies%20_Research_Center_KAPSARC_riyadh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1134" data-original-width="1134" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXcmS8l6I-WPzuVag-PqGFp0liXh7VWkK5YgW5YewMRiV1Zi_70xYGTeYRmmCISnh6OVs3eJzwzJ8PUXyl7MHIv214_zba6OUkDaChdqFJ-XJTnPZBOTVq6zLUg-QK5bu9_2Qm_2o1RPuKTA_LqYO3R7-z8r8R8WHjzB56sCx59hFlYmtRaj0JLdXm8T3b/w640-h640/Magnet_toy_tower_sculpture_artist_Wayne_Chisnall_Black_Gold_Museum_King_Abdullah_Petroleum_Studies%20_Research_Center_KAPSARC_riyadh.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Black Gold Museum, King Abdullah Petroleum Studies & Research Centre, Riyadh.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 115%;"><o:p>It's odd not having Magnet around anymore as it's one of the earliest sculptures I created (way back in 1999) and had been a colourful presence around the place for over two decades - especially since most of my later sculptures tend to lean towards the brown end of the colour spectrum. Two compensate for its absence I think that I might create some new, brightly coloured sculptures. I already have a few ideas but, not wanting to jinx anything, I’ll won’t go into any details about them until nearer the time of their completion.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><br /></p><p style="background: white; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSvYEkDRfM-xaVtU6z5ifl4VL9tkK5SMD447fS7MKBSHnN1Nmesjaw5bqHLfKtnBB5luu1DBPpHO9xSt9HYTAzV9W0J0yL-nXTz0E3nlfzyi0UsX2NbYtLhz7zt8s88i6o54_3Xd9gp5Lc8IKSRAkB_dOV2cDF4OOaySA1MJWmaUcBy7c0Yg7ZkCakQGoJ/s2848/Magnet_toy_tower_sculpture_artist_Wayne_Chisnall_Royal_British_Society_Sculptors_Rollo_Gallery_London.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2136" data-original-width="2848" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSvYEkDRfM-xaVtU6z5ifl4VL9tkK5SMD447fS7MKBSHnN1Nmesjaw5bqHLfKtnBB5luu1DBPpHO9xSt9HYTAzV9W0J0yL-nXTz0E3nlfzyi0UsX2NbYtLhz7zt8s88i6o54_3Xd9gp5Lc8IKSRAkB_dOV2cDF4OOaySA1MJWmaUcBy7c0Yg7ZkCakQGoJ/w640-h480/Magnet_toy_tower_sculpture_artist_Wayne_Chisnall_Royal_British_Society_Sculptors_Rollo_Gallery_London.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Magnet' at Royal British Society of Sculptors 'Contemporary Sculpture Show', Rollo Gallery, London</td></tr></tbody></table></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQaT7HqrIUtEXxkZld3QrnyvG8Q4AqUGa3aig8vCRivu8Jrx-RbyJdIpQ5uf6dcvxtv5F3Rab57BmLDdbsNPtyDoDglvFpZfhJHA9teHXajDKGPlGhUtfZc6jk1tj8XR2Zo_0Xk5XL5xIh9rosTy458fhLZYPNuYFp4XiTJr6khuFoun81a0AVVG7TLyFw/s3648/001%20Magnet%20(20).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQaT7HqrIUtEXxkZld3QrnyvG8Q4AqUGa3aig8vCRivu8Jrx-RbyJdIpQ5uf6dcvxtv5F3Rab57BmLDdbsNPtyDoDglvFpZfhJHA9teHXajDKGPlGhUtfZc6jk1tj8XR2Zo_0Xk5XL5xIh9rosTy458fhLZYPNuYFp4XiTJr6khuFoun81a0AVVG7TLyFw/w640-h480/001%20Magnet%20(20).JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: #FEFEFE; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">'Magnet' & friend at 'Affluenza' exhibition, St. John St. Clerkenwell, London 2009</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-68579405298886726112024-03-01T09:03:00.000-08:002024-03-01T09:15:41.093-08:00En-garde<p><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">‘En-garde’ is one of the pieces from a line of what I like to call my
minimal intervention sculptures. These are sculptures I've made from found
materials, where I've done little actual manipulation of the objects themselves;
Instead, I either mount and display a piece of material in pretty much the same
state as I found it (letting its intrinsic qualities speak for themselves) or I
put together two or more found objects/materials to create an altogether new
object.</span></p><p><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirXvpKwR0wEsHX5lMeBvGULEUyEft5yW4NxiLEUiKpYwi-ZxpnhmfVGkqIVwlMJKMXXKG5em_4iXBsmyB8c6OnDlBENdRmk_IYqwU8yT4GHY82Zdx7_b7eQN0uEXCdy2-qnYjnz-MUk_3yEWy3qWJRasuXcRAC1QV3fWyU4e88oKIIxeiA1J8BimnG9n5_/s2447/En-Guard_On-Guard_Rose_Root_found_object_minimal_intervention_sculpture_by_UK_British_artist_sculptor_wayne_chisnall%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2447" data-original-width="2447" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirXvpKwR0wEsHX5lMeBvGULEUyEft5yW4NxiLEUiKpYwi-ZxpnhmfVGkqIVwlMJKMXXKG5em_4iXBsmyB8c6OnDlBENdRmk_IYqwU8yT4GHY82Zdx7_b7eQN0uEXCdy2-qnYjnz-MUk_3yEWy3qWJRasuXcRAC1QV3fWyU4e88oKIIxeiA1J8BimnG9n5_/w640-h640/En-Guard_On-Guard_Rose_Root_found_object_minimal_intervention_sculpture_by_UK_British_artist_sculptor_wayne_chisnall%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'En-garde', minimal intervention sculpture by artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This piece is made from an old dead rose bush, where I removed the soil
to expose the roots, cut away the top section in a nice straight line (a few
inches above what had been ground level) and inverted it. I love the sense of
balance in this piece, almost as if it is maintaining a stance in readiness to
spring into action, hence the title.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-73379206095355870242024-02-26T15:24:00.000-08:002024-02-26T16:09:58.411-08:00Bunk-Up<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">I was asked to create an artwork for a bed-themed exhibition in London.
What I came up with was ‘Bunk-Up’, an oak sculpture that, at its base, is
similar in construction to most of the wooden framework elements I created on
‘Unlockdown’; the art collaboration project I undertook with the ceramics
artist <a href="https://www.sharongriffinart.com/">Sharon Griffin</a>, during the Covid 19 lockdown.</span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibh2x0nbo84WgfLREXMlpLWmRQZO_ROAbwOdBg6pWPTzixte2zRA3YkFLC5vdGJC0-behY3z9psYcs6g7UPTtAEonQFSVgm2iN9TLvhfAl9phW8LCNBD21MTxXatGPluJQVHeEU3zeaX0bjrHhJI9UA_Lgiohaj9QkFrLU0x_PbiuoJWNkEAHK6oKo40lY/s1134/1_Bunk_Up_oak_wood_textile_tall_framework_bed_sculpture_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1134" data-original-width="1134" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibh2x0nbo84WgfLREXMlpLWmRQZO_ROAbwOdBg6pWPTzixte2zRA3YkFLC5vdGJC0-behY3z9psYcs6g7UPTtAEonQFSVgm2iN9TLvhfAl9phW8LCNBD21MTxXatGPluJQVHeEU3zeaX0bjrHhJI9UA_Lgiohaj9QkFrLU0x_PbiuoJWNkEAHK6oKo40lY/w640-h640/1_Bunk_Up_oak_wood_textile_tall_framework_bed_sculpture_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3 views of 'Bunk-Up', oak sculpture by artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Incidentally, the Unlocked project was so successful that Sharon and I got selected for the 2022 Collect Open (organised by the <a href="https://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/">Crafts Council</a>) and exhibited several of our sculptures from the project at that year’s <a href="https://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/collect-art-fair/collect-2022-exhibitors/collect-open/sharon-griffin-and-wayne-chisnall">Collect</a> art fair at <a href="https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/">Somerset House</a> in London.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSnX0KMyPTeuRHXsULNRT-FWk76NEGOOryXBssSdFIe-D48RHikcQyQyqBtimPjpLoJASz5PfgfKJCPReeFM2P7_ZuDyOvIjgA_PPcmY4vf4679Mc6FhZASOv0M2wI8OG42K_30B3hA8YFv04fS1Ln_LHc-IUyUS42JhcLfxaUSH4Rfs4xUPZNuSL28B5G/s5400/3_Bunk_Up_oak_wood_textile_tall_framework_bed_sculpture_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5400" data-original-width="5400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSnX0KMyPTeuRHXsULNRT-FWk76NEGOOryXBssSdFIe-D48RHikcQyQyqBtimPjpLoJASz5PfgfKJCPReeFM2P7_ZuDyOvIjgA_PPcmY4vf4679Mc6FhZASOv0M2wI8OG42K_30B3hA8YFv04fS1Ln_LHc-IUyUS42JhcLfxaUSH4Rfs4xUPZNuSL28B5G/w640-h640/3_Bunk_Up_oak_wood_textile_tall_framework_bed_sculpture_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> 'Bunk-Up' (detail), oak sculpture by artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As you can see from the photos, the bed section of the sculpture rises
high above its framework foundation on disproportionately long legs. This is
partly because I enjoy playing around with expected dimensions, and partly
because I have a fascination with towers and architectural structures. But the
work also alludes to the elevated state of dreaming; of being set free to
inhabit other realities. In this way, the bed can be seen as representing
dreams or the dreamer, and having distanced itself from the earthly realm, as
represented by the architectural-looking framework below.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlYf_hfWtu_Plbj7mtDAzSK9d7mcI8J2aFGn9gMyeoILeUHUd0Vlz1cvGljTXyl1yC1wWlLD0utr3N2shXFYhMy3lDxH-Qc2ZAqb3TsYD_Y14HPnjP2UPpzd3BuY_tOggbqbVhf8fHOWdGzKV94it8oloGV1ndTD3slffuYdAx_E2IjNWcIZwx0_4pwaWM/s1134/2_Bunk_Up_oak_wood_textile_tall_framework_bed_sculpture_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1134" data-original-width="1134" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlYf_hfWtu_Plbj7mtDAzSK9d7mcI8J2aFGn9gMyeoILeUHUd0Vlz1cvGljTXyl1yC1wWlLD0utr3N2shXFYhMy3lDxH-Qc2ZAqb3TsYD_Y14HPnjP2UPpzd3BuY_tOggbqbVhf8fHOWdGzKV94it8oloGV1ndTD3slffuYdAx_E2IjNWcIZwx0_4pwaWM/w640-h640/2_Bunk_Up_oak_wood_textile_tall_framework_bed_sculpture_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">3 views of 'Bunk-Up', oak sculpture by artist Wayne Chisnall</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Or maybe I’m just reading too much into it and I just wanted to make a
bed rising above an intricate mass of interlocking oak pieces. Either way, it
was fun working on this piece and I enjoyed hand-sewing the mini pillow,
mattress and blanket.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiwJwSyGT4ZDVcHGfmRhFxTbTjv016O1UdEjTPesxQ4dtYPKzROhUN_1h-sybPoNHu57FcUpXLLNipOLfkNf6orjc7TTb0x7q3AZz985JMosmuAqq63wW-oNPO6tkir9NACRGfb-T8eiz0pDel23WhJW8zR3-xRwLYJYK_g-glJlkZyfEVfWUFYUc3E3e6/s1048/Bunk%20Up%20x4%20base.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1048" data-original-width="1042" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiwJwSyGT4ZDVcHGfmRhFxTbTjv016O1UdEjTPesxQ4dtYPKzROhUN_1h-sybPoNHu57FcUpXLLNipOLfkNf6orjc7TTb0x7q3AZz985JMosmuAqq63wW-oNPO6tkir9NACRGfb-T8eiz0pDel23WhJW8zR3-xRwLYJYK_g-glJlkZyfEVfWUFYUc3E3e6/w636-h640/Bunk%20Up%20x4%20base.jpg" width="636" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 'Bunk-Up' (details of base), oak sculpture by artist Wayne Chisnall</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In the end, (for reasons that I won’t go into) I chose not to take part
in the exhibition that I’d been asked to create this sculpture for. <o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-34194769001151894622024-02-21T15:06:00.000-08:002024-02-21T15:37:20.553-08:00War Child & Secret 7" Record Art Auction 2024<p><span style="font-family: arial;">I’m delighted to announce I’m joining this
year’s War Child presents <a href="https://secret-7.co.uk/">Secret 7</a>. My artwork will be exhibited at the <a href="https://twitter.com/NOWGallery">NOW Gallery</a>, London SE10 from March 2nd-17th, alongside a stellar line up of
contributors. You can bid on your favourites from March 2nd by joining <a href="https://twitter.com/peggy">@peggy</a> on Twitter/X.
All money raised will support <a href="https://twitter.com/WarChildUK">War Child UK</a>’s work in conflict zones around the
world.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfLJQe2iiwcO41nipgNnPv65Qp77_A3NXWOIWCVBfNyQdsfTLMuibE1EGSFjIeDM9FKSzNOoJVlQPYKWuYffNd6cKTquFuQXQxe2dnzC4Zsv-9ddcqn-JdSIGBa3z39K7gEV4s-zyTD84Zk_ZfR-LFFuqJ9o1AeE_S68Sad3HqKlIEfh9GVub0VH9VcDSi/s1120/DSC_0928-1120x747.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="747" data-original-width="1120" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfLJQe2iiwcO41nipgNnPv65Qp77_A3NXWOIWCVBfNyQdsfTLMuibE1EGSFjIeDM9FKSzNOoJVlQPYKWuYffNd6cKTquFuQXQxe2dnzC4Zsv-9ddcqn-JdSIGBa3z39K7gEV4s-zyTD84Zk_ZfR-LFFuqJ9o1AeE_S68Sad3HqKlIEfh9GVub0VH9VcDSi/w640-h426/DSC_0928-1120x747.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image from a previous year's Secret 7 project</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">If you're not familiar with Secret 7, here's the concept - The organisers of the project take 7 tracks from 7 musicians and press each one as a 7" single, 100 times. They then invite artists and designers to interpret the tracks in their own style and create one-off record sleeves for the individual 7" vinyl records. The resulting 700 1-of-a-kind sleeves, containing the 7" vinyl records, are then exhibited anonymously (that's where the secret part comes into play) at NOW Gallery and can be purchased via an online auction. Proceeds of the auction go to War Child UK, who help support children in world conflict zones.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='472' height='392' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyXyYB04ltzRgtrTayNi7q_qP9qxnBKE0Qnyu5WSd5O9H364uuqft-iUStNTMCVDAFGt3tN-tPxRSo2pnWxHg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This year’s 7 tracks are Aurora's
A Different Kind of Human, Stop This Flame by Celeste, Skipping Like a Stone by
The Chemical Brothers, Hozier's Swan Upon Leda, Pipes of Peace by Paul
McCartney, Lullaby by Siouxsie & The Banshees, and We Sell Hope by The
Specials.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju3gGC5A3_1Gsz62xcdgufYjTjdfCnLUkKPWqsQWXF3eBkH-C_38e1p5oNUar2C7Z1R9iEBOi4IpVyfyenfbXCqkBWWlnuq4SvR2r6p8Xhz-Vu9iK_hLqHVNZ-DWMIf6sjI_7O4V658Jeo6spm6G93ZDfLm7ev15I8KanAw_Pmr2aPDct8GWgUWW_s7acb/s600/Secret%207%20logo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="600" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju3gGC5A3_1Gsz62xcdgufYjTjdfCnLUkKPWqsQWXF3eBkH-C_38e1p5oNUar2C7Z1R9iEBOi4IpVyfyenfbXCqkBWWlnuq4SvR2r6p8Xhz-Vu9iK_hLqHVNZ-DWMIf6sjI_7O4V658Jeo6spm6G93ZDfLm7ev15I8KanAw_Pmr2aPDct8GWgUWW_s7acb/w640-h502/Secret%207%20logo.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">For a more in-depth insight into this year's Secret 7, and the history of the project, check out this <a href="https://www.creativeboom.com/news/secret-7-is-back-for-2023/">article</a> from <a href="https://www.creativeboom.com/news/secret-7-is-back-for-2023/">Creative Boom</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">You can <a href="https://try.peggy.com/?invite_code=SECRET7">click here</a> to register to bid on this year's <a href="https://secret-7.co.uk/">Secret 7</a>, and not only get the chance (if you're lucky enough) to end up owning a one-off record designed by a renowned artist or designer, but also help support the humanitarian work of <a href="https://www.warchild.org.uk/">War Child UK</a>.</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="css-175oi2r r-xoduu5" style="align-items: stretch; background-color: black; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e7e9ea; display: inline-flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space-collapse: preserve; z-index: 0;"><span class="r-18u37iz" style="flex-direction: row;"><br /></span></div>Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-26212388498794342692024-02-21T11:31:00.000-08:002024-02-21T14:15:57.651-08:00Frankenstein's Log (sculpture)<p><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">As with more than a few of my
artworks, there’s a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley">Mary Shelley</a>’s ‘<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein">Frankenstein</a>’-influence present in my
sculpture ‘Frankenstein’s Log’. I not only love the original novel, but I also
grew up loving the <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021884/">1931 movie</a> version (and the spin-offs, such as
the 1935 ‘<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026138/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_bride%2520of%2520frankenstein">Bride of Frankenstein</a>’) by director <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001843/?ref_=tt_ov_dr">James Whale</a>. The stapled together element of my
sculpture pays homage to that of the visuals of the monster, as played by <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000472/?ref_=tt_cl_t_3">BorisKarloff</a>, in the old black and white movie versions. As well as for aesthetic
reasons, the hand-made metal staples I made for the ‘Frankenstein’s Log’ also
service a practical purpose. They actually help hold together the upper and
lower sections of the sculpture.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwV8EpE2gm10kk6M1hEqLjw-8JBLzLW73JJfX9pnL0vtV6fDH7GiCzd5uAGJY0t1ZlO2qFFDEtxI_Kp-RjTVycapO2HL2wL80riys453617ldFm1fBgnKiEEUAU2QjpBX0jZW7tS6_h8IfoO-J4It-9WtFFtBmApmWTu6syDjreRV5yfZ1svJSpD_DDI-h/s567/Frankensteins_Log_uncanny_teeth_found_object_natural_materials_sculpture_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="417" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwV8EpE2gm10kk6M1hEqLjw-8JBLzLW73JJfX9pnL0vtV6fDH7GiCzd5uAGJY0t1ZlO2qFFDEtxI_Kp-RjTVycapO2HL2wL80riys453617ldFm1fBgnKiEEUAU2QjpBX0jZW7tS6_h8IfoO-J4It-9WtFFtBmApmWTu6syDjreRV5yfZ1svJSpD_DDI-h/w470-h640/Frankensteins_Log_uncanny_teeth_found_object_natural_materials_sculpture_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(2).jpg" width="470" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Frankenstein's Log' sculpture, artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br /></span><p></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This stitching together of
separate parts (as happened with Shelley’s creature in the book, and with the
monster in the movies) became necessary with my sculpture because when I found
the original log in the woods, it was a lot longer than it is now and as I
didn’t have a wood saw with me at the time, I decided to break the log into
smaller pieces by smashing it against a tree. Even though I hit the log against
the tree at a point further down from the area that eventually became the
mouth, I failed to take into account at the time that this mouth point was the
obvious weak spot, and so that’s where the log snapped first. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ2RKylQjZycKnMQpoP6O2__xCkDxHlnRmIz7W15eLaKdZSGS4t1rT_I2_Xmk-Lci9J1svWKpEZ-JkxUsWbckttNwqT7xVOAYUbIjzESev6_YO1sPPcR30UAS8ZMNowdTA8i47xQ5azBrfwmr_ilcdYDQjdgaeo1fe9MJp2JoiL9AUnDnKl5Z_qiURoj6_/s1673/Frankensteins_Log_uncanny_teeth_found_object_natural_materials_creepy_lynchian_sculpture_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(3).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="1673" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ2RKylQjZycKnMQpoP6O2__xCkDxHlnRmIz7W15eLaKdZSGS4t1rT_I2_Xmk-Lci9J1svWKpEZ-JkxUsWbckttNwqT7xVOAYUbIjzESev6_YO1sPPcR30UAS8ZMNowdTA8i47xQ5azBrfwmr_ilcdYDQjdgaeo1fe9MJp2JoiL9AUnDnKl5Z_qiURoj6_/w640-h216/Frankensteins_Log_uncanny_teeth_found_object_natural_materials_creepy_lynchian_sculpture_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(3).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Frankenstein's Log' (3 x detail) sculpture, artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I was initially pissed-off
(or ‘pissed’ as American English would have it, although ‘pissed’ over here in
the UK means excessively drunk) with myself for breaking the log at this
important section. However, this proved a blessing in disguise, not only
because it offered me a reason to employ the Karloff’s monster-style staples,
but because it also allowed me easier access to the upper and lower ‘jaws’ for
when I came to create the teeth and gums element of the sculpture. So the
accident turned out somewhat serendipitous in the end.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6sSZmxnmpPW7Lcxhtl-ffm2owKnhAlZ5LY3SI8VQdY631U7S8sRO4SUBsFocR8Z7lIJXSmrkznxL7B_vlv-H708q6begI3mzUfiRZfZKrT-cNzwtHttNNnMAIqxOnbaFQSxECqHz5Jy5I9ODF8Pt12lJUjD_qzbew7-FCz4tcMmMr5dk44nza-tW6K8t5/s567/Frankensteins_Log_uncanny_teeth_found_object_natural_materials_creepy_lynchian_sculpture_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(7).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="423" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6sSZmxnmpPW7Lcxhtl-ffm2owKnhAlZ5LY3SI8VQdY631U7S8sRO4SUBsFocR8Z7lIJXSmrkznxL7B_vlv-H708q6begI3mzUfiRZfZKrT-cNzwtHttNNnMAIqxOnbaFQSxECqHz5Jy5I9ODF8Pt12lJUjD_qzbew7-FCz4tcMmMr5dk44nza-tW6K8t5/w478-h640/Frankensteins_Log_uncanny_teeth_found_object_natural_materials_creepy_lynchian_sculpture_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(7).jpg" width="478" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Frankenstein's Log' (detail) sculpture, artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br /><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The upper section of the
piece originally had three branches, but I rounded them off to create bulbous
horns. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijvFr13nr3W39xrD-SehBjpSVjmSi2V3OKPnzy8iAXgx8gkaHzc0GdcOna9oDUrGaNjBlNQO0qeQTxGZwNKGGHbB-hr6-JzoHYEC_lw8Q5RkpzXOn17b5P0H4FfuP69nB1l75TOBSu7EnC2nK8BSVcUOgABh7VgK1RQ61-cOWHDD3z9HIWWs6V_88Ryr5q/s567/Frankensteins_Log_uncanny_teeth_found_object_natural_materials_creepy_lynchian_sculpture_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(5.3).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="421" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijvFr13nr3W39xrD-SehBjpSVjmSi2V3OKPnzy8iAXgx8gkaHzc0GdcOna9oDUrGaNjBlNQO0qeQTxGZwNKGGHbB-hr6-JzoHYEC_lw8Q5RkpzXOn17b5P0H4FfuP69nB1l75TOBSu7EnC2nK8BSVcUOgABh7VgK1RQ61-cOWHDD3z9HIWWs6V_88Ryr5q/w476-h640/Frankensteins_Log_uncanny_teeth_found_object_natural_materials_creepy_lynchian_sculpture_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(5.3).jpg" width="476" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Frankenstein's Log' sculpture, artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I realise that, at some
point, I'm gonna have to take a photo of myself, cradling Frankenstein’s Log in
my arms, à la David Lynch's Log Lady from Twin Peaks. But for now, here's just a photo of me and Frankenstein's Log, screaming along together.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBFNhAXxwOWDqW2ArxHjcRzQOufUr4qnoAvZ6fQxxLuR_HSuK0SGPI-7hyphenhyphenV3d0rfBxRiwDcihrycXeuoG6LsLy5Kc7L0erBs1Qcc3b4KySobcWNAvMJjkUejrI2y5dYxFGx-gWexjC7m32nu4sedWgc3u3ECAtbculy-BmllqY38Y9vPdBIW3lRZh0_eX3/s1552/Artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_&_Frankensteins_Log_wood_teeth_dentata_sculpture%20(11.5).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1552" data-original-width="1552" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBFNhAXxwOWDqW2ArxHjcRzQOufUr4qnoAvZ6fQxxLuR_HSuK0SGPI-7hyphenhyphenV3d0rfBxRiwDcihrycXeuoG6LsLy5Kc7L0erBs1Qcc3b4KySobcWNAvMJjkUejrI2y5dYxFGx-gWexjC7m32nu4sedWgc3u3ECAtbculy-BmllqY38Y9vPdBIW3lRZh0_eX3/w640-h640/Artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_&_Frankensteins_Log_wood_teeth_dentata_sculpture%20(11.5).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Frankenstein's Log' sculpture and artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br /></span><p></p>Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-35731230239991317112024-02-15T13:29:00.000-08:002024-02-15T14:00:39.009-08:00Crab Doll Chapel<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Some time ago I decided to try a different, more
experimental approach to sculpting. Rather than applying my usual method of
creating a sculpture, where I’d work out (through sketches and, for want of a
better word, daydreaming) in advance what I wanted the finished piece to look like,
I thought I’d play about with combinations of different materials and found
objects, and see if anything promising emerged. I called the resulting artefacts
my ‘component sculptures’ or ‘component pieces’. Many of these pieces didn’t
really lead to much, apart from giving me a few new visual connections to store
in my head for potential future use, along with boxes full of odd-shaped
objects that might, at some later date, find their way into larger component sculptures.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4L32oBjgtNn5VrjqJjJwlYST7gp-fflB9t2eAGg-Mu_3E2e1wXaE1ktJlHMrHHwzEC0ret2BYngBVo59OB5HQu0Mc6UWAWG6wSLaKjlCaYpFi48pXtNVbyCgMScBpV6YifDLv1IES6FZiduEZq399Gj0CksgZK91epMM9jh-jNZSqhSqtFTPzYX00078j/s8992/01_Crab_Doll_Chapel_found_object_sculpture_wood_crab_legs_broken_china_doll_head_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8992" data-original-width="8992" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4L32oBjgtNn5VrjqJjJwlYST7gp-fflB9t2eAGg-Mu_3E2e1wXaE1ktJlHMrHHwzEC0ret2BYngBVo59OB5HQu0Mc6UWAWG6wSLaKjlCaYpFi48pXtNVbyCgMScBpV6YifDLv1IES6FZiduEZq399Gj0CksgZK91epMM9jh-jNZSqhSqtFTPzYX00078j/w640-h640/01_Crab_Doll_Chapel_found_object_sculpture_wood_crab_legs_broken_china_doll_head_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Crab Doll Chapel', sculpture by artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">One of these component sculptures that did become something
more substantial was Crab Doll Chapel. It started out with a broken, antique
doll’s head that I found, to which I then added some dead crabs’ legs (found
whilst beach combing); intending it to look like a cross between a demented
hermit crab and an alien parasite, emerging from the doll’s shattered head. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIUWuu3z52GMcxHqQzCiyJsdmgdr9T3DAa_4MwaTpVtEKlA16WE1HvOvTcsXnIQOPoWu8XiFxl5Lc9AfLmtcePe2ejsItX2qbbuREzt7thmpvkyXYVTPnM3SJP35s8tbc8n3obmFqhW8RkjmGnFJdujRNyORPEwQ9e0ZQz8MNJkMHvvZl6sFESCUT4vjrJ/s8992/02_Crab_Doll_Chapel_found_object_sculpture_wood_crab_legs_broken_china_doll_head_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8992" data-original-width="8992" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIUWuu3z52GMcxHqQzCiyJsdmgdr9T3DAa_4MwaTpVtEKlA16WE1HvOvTcsXnIQOPoWu8XiFxl5Lc9AfLmtcePe2ejsItX2qbbuREzt7thmpvkyXYVTPnM3SJP35s8tbc8n3obmFqhW8RkjmGnFJdujRNyORPEwQ9e0ZQz8MNJkMHvvZl6sFESCUT4vjrJ/w640-h640/02_Crab_Doll_Chapel_found_object_sculpture_wood_crab_legs_broken_china_doll_head_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(2).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Crab Doll Chapel' (detail), sculpture by artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This odd combination of materials then sat around for a while
before I had the idea to build a wooden framework structure around it. Initially,
this was to create a physical barrier to protect the fragile crab legs from
getting accidentally damaged. However, the structure soon took on a kind of church-like
appearance. Because of the protective nature of the wooden structure and its
cathedral pretentions, I partly see it as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliquary">reliquary</a>, with doll’s head and
crab legs standing in for the bones of some old saint or a piece of the
original cross (acknowledging that most reliquaries probably also contain as equally
in-authentically sacred materials as mine does - although, that's also part of their charm). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKaT_Z81IrInTzekstFCbRRL4X0kfZIzQXVPaE5q9BaJqoyI7pbOZrWrgma01y-_kTx2qNgpL_WPfBLqET5uExWWbJvQv4qJRBVFLZMPykBws7rt2haqrfCb2ZJPNgFBkIkxen4ZdIsOHYBDqRajbObZImFU5ScgTyk1ZwRVsKE-vsWqJ1_AAM2wWFs0zX/s8992/07_Crab_Doll_Chapel_found_object_sculpture_wood_crab_legs_broken_china_doll_head_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(7).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8992" data-original-width="8992" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKaT_Z81IrInTzekstFCbRRL4X0kfZIzQXVPaE5q9BaJqoyI7pbOZrWrgma01y-_kTx2qNgpL_WPfBLqET5uExWWbJvQv4qJRBVFLZMPykBws7rt2haqrfCb2ZJPNgFBkIkxen4ZdIsOHYBDqRajbObZImFU5ScgTyk1ZwRVsKE-vsWqJ1_AAM2wWFs0zX/w640-h640/07_Crab_Doll_Chapel_found_object_sculpture_wood_crab_legs_broken_china_doll_head_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(7).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Crab Doll Chapel', sculpture by artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Like many unexpected creative directions that artworks can
take, it’s hard to work out if they are the results of subconscious thoughts or
whether the initial developmental stages of the work provokes ideas that then govern
the direction and meaning of the work. Either way, I enjoy this way of working
as it leads to new or unexpected artworks and results in me questioning my
practice and my psyche.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrT3twwQSuBVvPQWxKrB2ESN_LtDbR9RXNyi7AxujSgcscaXJzxchjYqKu2wwWKgyX4WWiHqTZN3s3zJJ7YH-7YNrfDVRCu7y9-B6ocSBhnEKiHyPPuyEZV57z7pu8I_o36JyI_bZOEyaDHsFoebOYerNzbHhR6eZpw-bJJKlw-g0bxdnqOQiMBwBeh9Lu/s2992/09_Crab_Doll_Chapel_found_object_sculpture_wood_crab_legs_broken_china_doll_head_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(9).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2992" data-original-width="2992" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrT3twwQSuBVvPQWxKrB2ESN_LtDbR9RXNyi7AxujSgcscaXJzxchjYqKu2wwWKgyX4WWiHqTZN3s3zJJ7YH-7YNrfDVRCu7y9-B6ocSBhnEKiHyPPuyEZV57z7pu8I_o36JyI_bZOEyaDHsFoebOYerNzbHhR6eZpw-bJJKlw-g0bxdnqOQiMBwBeh9Lu/w640-h640/09_Crab_Doll_Chapel_found_object_sculpture_wood_crab_legs_broken_china_doll_head_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(9).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Crab Doll Chapel', sculpture by artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p>Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-81454275654166696872024-02-12T16:52:00.000-08:002024-02-12T17:09:43.442-08:00Thames Embryo Leaps Spidey Pods<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">There are numerous themes or motifs that run through my
work and occasionally some of them will meet, clash, or overlap one another in
a specific piece. One such piece manifested after I came across this particularly
lovely mudlarking find; a piece of driftwood that I waxed up and mounted on a
metal stand. I call it find ‘Thames Embryo Leaping’. As soon as I discovered
it, it made me think of some kind of partially-formed or embryonic quadruped,
in the act of leaping.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMTHLYmYMYZ4gFlmiTH6rCZGp3GwR4SMDFOLZVTpEXXZCQ2o9FM4UfIKZ5TjYbnbnGsS3NGklpXtHqi5ZS6xRMP5PjHNbz4XXgT9Hh7os88I6djXQvVkeuAWM5Tl1xE8kQq9hLPC69KX1vI_M1a1A7stVoFyO10GFXpbXB10Jba1lIlMSKOrJJnNoAVVwV/s2490/Thames_Embryo_Leaping_assemblage_mudlarking_found_object_artwork_sculpture_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(3).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2308" data-original-width="2490" height="594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMTHLYmYMYZ4gFlmiTH6rCZGp3GwR4SMDFOLZVTpEXXZCQ2o9FM4UfIKZ5TjYbnbnGsS3NGklpXtHqi5ZS6xRMP5PjHNbz4XXgT9Hh7os88I6djXQvVkeuAWM5Tl1xE8kQq9hLPC69KX1vI_M1a1A7stVoFyO10GFXpbXB10Jba1lIlMSKOrJJnNoAVVwV/w640-h594/Thames_Embryo_Leaping_assemblage_mudlarking_found_object_artwork_sculpture_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(3).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Thames Embryo Leaping', found object sculpture, artist Wayne Chisnall<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">There was nothing particularly meaningful in the crossover that
then took place (other than the fact that once a visual overlap has been
created, a new connection is formed, and that connection can lie around in the
brain and may, almost imperceptibly, influence a creative decision further down
the line). I was simply messing around with one of my Spidey Pods screen
prints, painting over the surface of the print. As I got into the flow of painting
over it, looking around me for some visual stimulation, I focused in on a
couple of mudlarking finds from a recent trip to the banks of the Thames. One
was an interestingly-shaped piece of bone (worn smooth by its years in the
river), and the other was Thames Embryo Leaping, so I incorporated drawings of them
both into the over-working of the print.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFA3FsclBNV5ka0jCh26__XF49tmYSGtcKZLZeGmjMMwxCc7iB2TMnOxhByY7O7ABdFFwvzrkhG8_B_cKAAV8PpkrTPeo8zjIg5VaP5oU4BDCud7sFvs0P9_6vl5P-TUvFwYTh9i399OGMhWG7mV05hyphenhyphen0oWhW0WcsZoCjnN0fFZVRk9qO1YEyOYNmA_qit/s2192/Spidey_Segments_pods_spiderman_DC_comicbook_superhero_painting_Thames_Embryo_Leaping_print_artwork_costume_British_UK_artist_painter_Wayne_Chisnall.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2192" data-original-width="2084" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFA3FsclBNV5ka0jCh26__XF49tmYSGtcKZLZeGmjMMwxCc7iB2TMnOxhByY7O7ABdFFwvzrkhG8_B_cKAAV8PpkrTPeo8zjIg5VaP5oU4BDCud7sFvs0P9_6vl5P-TUvFwYTh9i399OGMhWG7mV05hyphenhyphen0oWhW0WcsZoCjnN0fFZVRk9qO1YEyOYNmA_qit/w608-h640/Spidey_Segments_pods_spiderman_DC_comicbook_superhero_painting_Thames_Embryo_Leaping_print_artwork_costume_British_UK_artist_painter_Wayne_Chisnall.jpg" width="608" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Thames Embryo Leaps Spidey Pods', over-painted screen print, artist Wayne Chisnall<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Spidey Pods screen print is an editioned print, based
upon one of my earlier enamel paintings, Spidey Segments. And this painting is
based upon a drawing I made late one night after I woke from a dream. I
no-longer remember much about the dream, except that it might have been loosely
related to that scene at the end of the 1956 version of Invasion of The Body
Snatchers, where the main character climb onto the back of a truck only to find
that it’s full of alien pods (or at least that’s how I remember the scene). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVIpO5Nt6pdFK5OZ22DSlcJIRIKDSxSyKgAcd2dffm4tz0nGVSJcDCOVSn3H2XpIGC4Y2xHtrCq86L4AUrp_bLDmVJT0atU-Ck_tEV2i9faV7mgAqlhaKh4K_RxCXc6ji9Rjf_wH5eQgK8qdeghvh-A51oPWB717B2TewpijUv71E6lijLrdCIVpHSpLMf/s2001/Spidey_Segments_pods_spiderman_DC_comicbook_superhero_print_painting_artwork_costume_British_UK_artist_painter_Wayne_Chisnall.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1967" data-original-width="2001" height="630" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVIpO5Nt6pdFK5OZ22DSlcJIRIKDSxSyKgAcd2dffm4tz0nGVSJcDCOVSn3H2XpIGC4Y2xHtrCq86L4AUrp_bLDmVJT0atU-Ck_tEV2i9faV7mgAqlhaKh4K_RxCXc6ji9Rjf_wH5eQgK8qdeghvh-A51oPWB717B2TewpijUv71E6lijLrdCIVpHSpLMf/w640-h630/Spidey_Segments_pods_spiderman_DC_comicbook_superhero_print_painting_artwork_costume_British_UK_artist_painter_Wayne_Chisnall.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Spidey Pods', screen print, artist Wayne Chisnall<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">However, I do remember that before I went to sleep that night I’d been peeling
the thin layer of skin off of a segment of orange, and had been fascinated by
the mass of fusiform pod-shapes (I believe they’re called ‘juice vesicles’)
inside the segment. So maybe that triggered the dream, which triggered the
drawing, which was of a load of pods, piled upon each other and getting smaller
as they disappear into the distance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaOHgY-v1Taolyn3MqfZsUvAw6kb3fKBVsuWjLOkAH_qnyOQgKpRp7sZpcIE3ToYJ0_G4UgVoLRgzT7GgQ8uStzY29a2VtnCHJlbrWLNKr8G9Iap_BgY3aXeEpB2ZqB3Vx6nOkieToViOQTf-14ItdyK73lZI4qlmMmp4m7eKce2nAxL221FLlkCQjyiNS/s1276/Spidey_Segments_pods_spiderman_DC_comicbook_superhero_painting_artwork_costume_British_UK_artist_painter_Wayne_Chisnall%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1276" data-original-width="958" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaOHgY-v1Taolyn3MqfZsUvAw6kb3fKBVsuWjLOkAH_qnyOQgKpRp7sZpcIE3ToYJ0_G4UgVoLRgzT7GgQ8uStzY29a2VtnCHJlbrWLNKr8G9Iap_BgY3aXeEpB2ZqB3Vx6nOkieToViOQTf-14ItdyK73lZI4qlmMmp4m7eKce2nAxL221FLlkCQjyiNS/w480-h640/Spidey_Segments_pods_spiderman_DC_comicbook_superhero_painting_artwork_costume_British_UK_artist_painter_Wayne_Chisnall%20(2).jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Spidey Segments' painting, artist Wayne Chisnall<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Once I’d drawn the pods I wanted to dress them in something;
something that was meaningful to me. So I chose something that I’d been passionate
about as a child. As well as my childhood love of old horror and sci-fi movies
(hence Invasion of the Body Snatchers), I loved horror and superhero comics, so
I chose elements of the 1970s style Spider-Man costume.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGfyuG_aY9vvX8aWdeRtX06ELDh5FRL6KvPFhC59FrFYnqv9f29W5-MR_KCYaEZsdwwKSt90fCgObQ7Mrp8zDS33CjfL-OfNa7dQHFvZr01TeqsfKp7DbvXzNwl6MypmTJtNYRt0QGoaJYy7XFpkS8NdE5LNk-Jt-klZU_tejBTx37TLVH5iZWGOL9uQVS/s1772/Spidey_Segments_pods_spiderman_DC_comicbook_superhero_painting_drawing_print_artwork_costume_British_UK_artist_painter_Wayne_Chisnall%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1401" data-original-width="1772" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGfyuG_aY9vvX8aWdeRtX06ELDh5FRL6KvPFhC59FrFYnqv9f29W5-MR_KCYaEZsdwwKSt90fCgObQ7Mrp8zDS33CjfL-OfNa7dQHFvZr01TeqsfKp7DbvXzNwl6MypmTJtNYRt0QGoaJYy7XFpkS8NdE5LNk-Jt-klZU_tejBTx37TLVH5iZWGOL9uQVS/w640-h506/Spidey_Segments_pods_spiderman_DC_comicbook_superhero_painting_drawing_print_artwork_costume_British_UK_artist_painter_Wayne_Chisnall%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Spidey Segments' drawing, artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">And as I mentioned earlier, the mashing together of
unrelated images forces new connections and sometimes new meanings. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-62935376367261954302024-02-12T13:00:00.000-08:002024-02-12T13:15:16.229-08:00Chared Resin Tower<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhipb5QRLCBLvZojyznSPi7yL69hLq1bjxQxj6lhJRFapZdZvPlGnM7Ox7_7OvMHbqLULLKHU61TbrNhqCz7EExamOqzCF_W2rYrVbSlji7mVNJEX9YH94SakcdjjP71WWkLP1qv_km0AXtI93QAdW79jhr2sGecMMpmZO56gxl6qC2loul36KklI3Fj9hX/s10460/Chared_Resin_Tower_burnt_burned_wood_framework_sculpture_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(11).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="10460" data-original-width="5215" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhipb5QRLCBLvZojyznSPi7yL69hLq1bjxQxj6lhJRFapZdZvPlGnM7Ox7_7OvMHbqLULLKHU61TbrNhqCz7EExamOqzCF_W2rYrVbSlji7mVNJEX9YH94SakcdjjP71WWkLP1qv_km0AXtI93QAdW79jhr2sGecMMpmZO56gxl6qC2loul36KklI3Fj9hX/w320-h640/Chared_Resin_Tower_burnt_burned_wood_framework_sculpture_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(11).jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Chared Resin Tower', artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Inspiration-wise, I haven’t got that much to say about this
piece. ‘Chared Resin Tower’ (not the most inspirational title, I admit) is
partly a maquette and partly an excuse for me to try out different combinations
of materials and techniques – i.e. the building of an interlocking wooden frame
structure, which I partially burned before fixing it in place with a coating of
resin. Enough said!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYodvTmawzRw62c8xtgvxQ9bqB_wI5l9md0GnE9CCXkmxl8Ob8chVD8Lvj0EEvqplsFhHUkTUCi2v-j9McdVUKFXEQbclbBAxAUvsYaxZDWZweOsD_5AyX2gRL3B5WvRVcmlMe1GFLNl-1R_CO09UzVQ72rVx2BjLLRzgrHqh1T8bbikPtZMXf2cIPIlW5/s2143/Chared_Resin_Tower_burnt_burned_wood_framework_sculpture_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_x_6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2143" data-original-width="1835" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYodvTmawzRw62c8xtgvxQ9bqB_wI5l9md0GnE9CCXkmxl8Ob8chVD8Lvj0EEvqplsFhHUkTUCi2v-j9McdVUKFXEQbclbBAxAUvsYaxZDWZweOsD_5AyX2gRL3B5WvRVcmlMe1GFLNl-1R_CO09UzVQ72rVx2BjLLRzgrHqh1T8bbikPtZMXf2cIPIlW5/w548-h640/Chared_Resin_Tower_burnt_burned_wood_framework_sculpture_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_x_6.jpg" width="548" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Chared Resin Tower' (6 views), artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p>Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-87511124800751198842024-02-10T06:23:00.000-08:002024-02-10T07:13:55.910-08:00Frankenstein's Orifice Box<p><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">Let me reintroduce you to ‘Frankenstein’s
Orifice Box’, one of my sculptures from 2011. I’ve decided to re-photograph
(now that I’ve got slightly better studio lights and a proper backdrop) a lot
of my artwork. So, apologies in advance, but prepare yourself for a torrent of
blasts from the past over the coming weeks.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy-7JDI28ByU11zigg-Z8lpCjtPIut3MksQmc0S5RNexTaY0yYYtzCL2YmwwRt_a7AMsqzZZPMwVzsGEVY45EG4DNBTSBUqnzkrvrn-T6nK-QIJ2VgJU1djtPPPVX9FxfQzRomh9_GWmP5EjEBogdwo3kavdt2RKwrHCl_EFDTZzWBf6iqnxN2jxuOjzRn/s8877/6_Frankenstiens_Orifice_Box_art_wooden_carved_sculpture_found_objects_materials_assemblage_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_%20(14.5).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8877" data-original-width="8877" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy-7JDI28ByU11zigg-Z8lpCjtPIut3MksQmc0S5RNexTaY0yYYtzCL2YmwwRt_a7AMsqzZZPMwVzsGEVY45EG4DNBTSBUqnzkrvrn-T6nK-QIJ2VgJU1djtPPPVX9FxfQzRomh9_GWmP5EjEBogdwo3kavdt2RKwrHCl_EFDTZzWBf6iqnxN2jxuOjzRn/w640-h640/6_Frankenstiens_Orifice_Box_art_wooden_carved_sculpture_found_objects_materials_assemblage_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_%20(14.5).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Frankenstein's Orifice Box', 2011, artist Wayne Chisnall<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin: 5pt 0cm;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Owing its inspiration, in
part, to an earlier one of my sculptures, the wall-mounted, low relief
sculpture, 'Orifice' (with its carved wooden aperture), 'Frankenstein's Orifice
Box' also incorporates another motif that has run through much of my work -
that of the nail box (inspired, in part, by the dreamlike animations of the
Bothers Quay, where rusty nails and screws come to life, and in part, by the
Minkisi artefacts/totemic carvings from the Congo region). If you peer in
through the sculpture's orifice you will see an internal, nail-encrusted wooden
box on stilts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrJm_aaFwyskE3P3PhSHnwBfmEPNdJYxi4mQbDtaGxSHq3nyWRmrOCas5Dtxysoj2QrRqkxBgPhOwrl3w1op35pB-CH8ULkLRxN_kyQO4xilPluTCVUUPqQKDsSzxSgzs6A0Zd3o6Pu5TDLHcx6T8k_ZMnSJp0BLFdKyuIoh9WMywCjoOwtwkkNxL11dgc/s8992/3_Frankenstiens_Orifice_Box_art_wooden_carved_sculpture_found_objects_materials_assemblage_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_%20(4).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8992" data-original-width="8992" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrJm_aaFwyskE3P3PhSHnwBfmEPNdJYxi4mQbDtaGxSHq3nyWRmrOCas5Dtxysoj2QrRqkxBgPhOwrl3w1op35pB-CH8ULkLRxN_kyQO4xilPluTCVUUPqQKDsSzxSgzs6A0Zd3o6Pu5TDLHcx6T8k_ZMnSJp0BLFdKyuIoh9WMywCjoOwtwkkNxL11dgc/w640-h640/3_Frankenstiens_Orifice_Box_art_wooden_carved_sculpture_found_objects_materials_assemblage_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_%20(4).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">'Frankenstein's Orifice Box', 2011, artist Wayne Chisnall<br /></div><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> well as the obvious sexual interpretation of the orifice
element, my main interest in the device lies in it being the portal between
the internal and the external. This can be interpreted in both psychological
and physical terms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGVkeUpySrfCkuDW4I7bAh37TPYjXV7v8Vhthv-pRjHF-JeH7HTyZFzCU8MdQs0zaOsgmMrqZK0Wuj9y5L1d2DEsWAjwQ8T1A-Q2V6NUwtCBg3lAQSTV9A7ab3XMwW_u3sFkt-1ioHuJmtFoN3uC07OIj-Ta-D95YqHayRO3xPcvbBEXsFliGC1nJLftsO/s7597/2_Frankenstiens_Orifice_Box_art_wooden_carved_sculpture_found_objects_materials_assemblage_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_%20(16.3).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7597" data-original-width="7597" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGVkeUpySrfCkuDW4I7bAh37TPYjXV7v8Vhthv-pRjHF-JeH7HTyZFzCU8MdQs0zaOsgmMrqZK0Wuj9y5L1d2DEsWAjwQ8T1A-Q2V6NUwtCBg3lAQSTV9A7ab3XMwW_u3sFkt-1ioHuJmtFoN3uC07OIj-Ta-D95YqHayRO3xPcvbBEXsFliGC1nJLftsO/w640-h640/2_Frankenstiens_Orifice_Box_art_wooden_carved_sculpture_found_objects_materials_assemblage_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_%20(16.3).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Frankenstein's Orifice Box' (detail), 2011, artist Wayne Chisnall<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The actual inspiration for 'Orifice' came to me when I saw a
van drive past me with a puncture hole in its side, and I noticed how the metal
around the puncture had taken on a strangely organic appearance, not too
dissimilar to the swollen and raised skin around a small cut that I had on the
back of my hand at the time. It's strange to think of when and from where
inspiration for artwork can come. Maybe if I hadn't spotted that van at that
particular moment in time, a whole body of work wouldn't now exist.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji1z39qHTIF3ZWjWiG9HFFT_AJaCkOyat0_eWdmP3f9acDdVmznyjrEwhpngr7EEQQANQA1i8BrQHBSiy7uYkHB72T0BZF-R-z04UTmR3uFYam0UYQ5871MwsrSh3MZV4_qg7EBVkHzEmomSMFqoZcv9eC7cRW5OYR2zbn334ZuLuTuPSym9xJZMmjo7fj/s8992/4_Frankenstiens_Orifice_Box_art_wooden_carved_sculpture_found_objects_materials_assemblage_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_%20(6).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8992" data-original-width="8992" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji1z39qHTIF3ZWjWiG9HFFT_AJaCkOyat0_eWdmP3f9acDdVmznyjrEwhpngr7EEQQANQA1i8BrQHBSiy7uYkHB72T0BZF-R-z04UTmR3uFYam0UYQ5871MwsrSh3MZV4_qg7EBVkHzEmomSMFqoZcv9eC7cRW5OYR2zbn334ZuLuTuPSym9xJZMmjo7fj/w640-h640/4_Frankenstiens_Orifice_Box_art_wooden_carved_sculpture_found_objects_materials_assemblage_UK_British_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_%20(6).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Frankenstein's Orifice Box', 2011, artist Wayne Chisnall<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-59040831116869079142024-02-09T10:51:00.000-08:002024-02-09T14:05:35.577-08:00Detritusphere<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">From the comments in my earlier posts, detailing the
work-in-progress stages of Detritusphere, I became aware that a few people
thought that the sculpture was roughly football-sized. So I’ve taken some
photos of the now completed Detritusphere with myself in shot, for scale. As I’m
sure you can tell, I’m one of those annoying idiots who finds it difficult not
pulling faces in front of a camera. I did manage to hold it together for a
couple of shots, but that proved to be the limit of my self-control.</span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh19sNpTY2-crt-GeSvG0wK4DbkuP35CrLNLRJPOQv18bEa9dixirZH0zaxN-GQN8WHoR9WOYy1P_Uyaj4iLwRHBUsGs_iKWr4O437dQM8ZWPaXq9HLX9T4SgYPhDfg-S1IL5I0f2JtBxI7kqxTwjlXFofYY64GnohQSQZvILIAHBIP48GiTYnRXv37ToI3/s4660/01_Detritusphere_Detritosphere_rusty_metal_found_object_materials_round_sphere_sculpture_with_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4660" data-original-width="4660" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh19sNpTY2-crt-GeSvG0wK4DbkuP35CrLNLRJPOQv18bEa9dixirZH0zaxN-GQN8WHoR9WOYy1P_Uyaj4iLwRHBUsGs_iKWr4O437dQM8ZWPaXq9HLX9T4SgYPhDfg-S1IL5I0f2JtBxI7kqxTwjlXFofYY64GnohQSQZvILIAHBIP48GiTYnRXv37ToI3/w640-h640/01_Detritusphere_Detritosphere_rusty_metal_found_object_materials_round_sphere_sculpture_with_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Detritusphere' sculpture & artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As previously stated, in earlier Detritusphere progress
reports, the sculpture is made up of small pieces of flat metal plates that
I’ve mostly either found on the roadside or dug up from Victorian rubbish dumps
that I discovered in the woods of Shropshire. Some of the metal pieces used in
the final half of Detritusphere’s construction came from a local scrap metal
dealer, <a href="http://www.jamesrollason.co.uk/">James Rollason</a>. Jim very kindly allowed me to collect the pieces that I
needed from his scrap yard, a veritable wonderland of interesting shapes and
textures.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjltZto_RqzSuhO1cELkMZ7grGunn_7ENkb613bnSYJryane6-4hVgtpPaF08SYXAnBKXfV6X49gLAvsuoNGfCI9plhh7mwi_R-mgXri4fHSwGnX5IvScLVLQuy6uCD-JmLQRgfRs1uLn4Afc5ccS542xDtgEERHu9YQJOR6qQtkCMh82oZr2NDEtsvMNNk/s8608/02_Detritusphere_Detritosphere_rusty_metal_found_object_materials_round_sphere_sculpture_with_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8608" data-original-width="8608" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjltZto_RqzSuhO1cELkMZ7grGunn_7ENkb613bnSYJryane6-4hVgtpPaF08SYXAnBKXfV6X49gLAvsuoNGfCI9plhh7mwi_R-mgXri4fHSwGnX5IvScLVLQuy6uCD-JmLQRgfRs1uLn4Afc5ccS542xDtgEERHu9YQJOR6qQtkCMh82oZr2NDEtsvMNNk/w640-h640/02_Detritusphere_Detritosphere_rusty_metal_found_object_materials_round_sphere_sculpture_with_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(2).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Detritusphere' sculpture, artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /><o:p><br /></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I constructed the sphere by first beating the plates into
the correct curvature, then overlapping them and drilling small holes through
the overlapped sections, through which I thread handmade metal staples. Once
the two legs of each staple are threaded through the holes, I twist them tightly
together to secure the plates in place. For the final plate in the piece’s
construction I used a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aoXmzdSf_I">pop-rivet</a> gun to fix it in place as I was obviously unable
to reach inside (once the plate had been set in place) and twist any staple
legs together. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMKIznvDNqJY_38ur39PyFW4N8l9sknqrEtMu9XW3Ba6hDtU1uAdJ_j0V38PpVwBxYbW76jmQfOpN9Z1Fd8pvnodrFvqFq-6WQAkIRs0Iw04RUYI9z1nHcR1TBoG3IqY7mgpA0a7lYyoTDEAQVS6KwmYX_ByMzeFtHEv7cde994Ng5FRwE5gG44cRl6gyW/s3943/09_Detritusphere_Detritosphere_rusty_metal_found_object_materials_round_sphere_sculpture_with_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(9).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3941" data-original-width="3943" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMKIznvDNqJY_38ur39PyFW4N8l9sknqrEtMu9XW3Ba6hDtU1uAdJ_j0V38PpVwBxYbW76jmQfOpN9Z1Fd8pvnodrFvqFq-6WQAkIRs0Iw04RUYI9z1nHcR1TBoG3IqY7mgpA0a7lYyoTDEAQVS6KwmYX_ByMzeFtHEv7cde994Ng5FRwE5gG44cRl6gyW/w640-h640/09_Detritusphere_Detritosphere_rusty_metal_found_object_materials_round_sphere_sculpture_with_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(9).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Detritusphere' sculpture & artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Getting slightly off topic, this reminds me of a terrible story
I once heard about horrific historical shipbuilding practices. Hopefully, the
story I heard was pure urban myth, but it either way it goes roughly like this.
At some point in the early or mid-20<sup>th</sup> Century, when old ships had
come to the end of their lives and were being dismantled in the ship breaking
yards, people started discovering children’s skeletons inside the hulls. The theory
I heard proposed was that as it required two people to rivet ships’ metal
plates together (one on each side of the plates), when it came to riveting the
final plate in place the ship builders would find a naïve child (presumably a
child off the streets or an orphan taken on as a disposable apprentice) and get
them to do the job on the inside, probably explaining that they would get them
out after the job was completed through some fictitious hatch. As I said,
hopefully this story wasn’t true, and thinking about it, it does sound like it the
kind of short story that I could have read in one of the many <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Book_of_Horror_Stories">Pan books of Horror Stories</a> that I avariciously consumed as a child.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht7JQt7HIN6aPfo5P1IG9_NKs98TNhf8YKhEKSi43xV8GOXq8PXzdJB661U7kjPLAX8cYRDtE9rvbxj15XCe132jq-b9zmqPmKOWhqssEW9Cz9ecdNZDwh5nofjcGpsCB6G7XLhVUx_tXl4nTx5bPzkr1PTax5nHnu_HqGkx_LBMFsT8GdCfkp0qeSNrdx/s8992/04_Detritusphere_Detritosphere_rusty_metal_found_object_materials_round_sphere_sculpture_with_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(4).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8992" data-original-width="8992" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht7JQt7HIN6aPfo5P1IG9_NKs98TNhf8YKhEKSi43xV8GOXq8PXzdJB661U7kjPLAX8cYRDtE9rvbxj15XCe132jq-b9zmqPmKOWhqssEW9Cz9ecdNZDwh5nofjcGpsCB6G7XLhVUx_tXl4nTx5bPzkr1PTax5nHnu_HqGkx_LBMFsT8GdCfkp0qeSNrdx/w640-h640/04_Detritusphere_Detritosphere_rusty_metal_found_object_materials_round_sphere_sculpture_with_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(4).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Detritusphere', scrap metal sculpture, artist Wayne Chisnall<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-62231108005981376862024-02-07T16:11:00.000-08:002024-02-07T16:21:59.334-08:00Lynch’s Secret Remedies (A3 Poster Print)<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">This A3-sized poster print of ‘Lynch’s Secret Remedies’ is
a reproduction of one of the mini oil paintings/sketches from my 2020/21
self-imposed painting challenge, where I set myself the goal of creating 100
new paintings over a 12 month period.</span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBGUyb5TPchgZ8pbOx_AbbpXwbMLQTQYd_GhuX3FXF-N9MJBPx_8USxha9WjEmcEZOxAUZOIiybVgj78fa4g39_geKwA_o7lEX73aVcv564KRvvco8G9oKkHq_xbFhjk5X-WpUNbleVkSXNTX6YWBFAadbLWZpIkjFBj1ON7osbyx1VMlpoSI6L0IZ9g21/s1613/Lynchs_Secret_Remedies_oil_painting_on_book_cover_art_print_weird_root_artist_Wayene_Chisnall%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1612" data-original-width="1613" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBGUyb5TPchgZ8pbOx_AbbpXwbMLQTQYd_GhuX3FXF-N9MJBPx_8USxha9WjEmcEZOxAUZOIiybVgj78fa4g39_geKwA_o7lEX73aVcv564KRvvco8G9oKkHq_xbFhjk5X-WpUNbleVkSXNTX6YWBFAadbLWZpIkjFBj1ON7osbyx1VMlpoSI6L0IZ9g21/w640-h640/Lynchs_Secret_Remedies_oil_painting_on_book_cover_art_print_weird_root_artist_Wayene_Chisnall%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Lynch's Secret Remedies' (A3-size poster print), artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The subject of the oil sketch is a small piece of tree root
that I found, that for some reason made me think of something from a David
Lynch movie – hence the Lynch’s part of the title.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As with most of paintings from this series, it was painted
directly onto the painting’s surface (in this case a front cover from an old
Secret Remedies book) without any preliminary drawings or much in the way of me
knowing what I was about to paint from the moment that I applied paintbrush to
paint. I found this form of automatic painting very liberating and a fruitful
creative exercise. It not only revealed new ideas and characters, but it also
allowed me to be more experimental with the way I applied paint.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB4dAMoVy1t70Wa6ohZLGQFenYs1f80vIjXe-i58FdX0nhF70wZuI0fD0o_yKW3BflEYhc-QXXeSn72XQYyctTnF3kimrOxTagg8m9N4Gww3A6-t0NUMtcORCUKsP4DLIvv98am_NATOig8sTkdSy2Xq3hZ-OfQmv4ZR3M3f-yqDQK6JAd6X3XEv-xg8PZ/s8488/2_Lynchs_Secret_Remedies_oil_painting_on_book_cover_art_print_weird_root_artist_Wayene_Chisnall%20(4.5).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8488" data-original-width="6236" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB4dAMoVy1t70Wa6ohZLGQFenYs1f80vIjXe-i58FdX0nhF70wZuI0fD0o_yKW3BflEYhc-QXXeSn72XQYyctTnF3kimrOxTagg8m9N4Gww3A6-t0NUMtcORCUKsP4DLIvv98am_NATOig8sTkdSy2Xq3hZ-OfQmv4ZR3M3f-yqDQK6JAd6X3XEv-xg8PZ/w470-h640/2_Lynchs_Secret_Remedies_oil_painting_on_book_cover_art_print_weird_root_artist_Wayene_Chisnall%20(4.5).jpg" width="470" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Lynch's Secret Remedies' (A3-size poster print), artist Wayne Chisnall<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The prints are printed on glossy, heavy-duty 300gsm paper,
with digital inks that give a silk finish.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">There are more poster prints to come, and all of them are
priced at £20 each with free postage. If you’d like one, just DM me or drop me
an email at </span><a href="mailto:waynechisnall@yahoo.co.uk"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">waynechisnall@yahoo.co.uk</span></a><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">If there is a painting or sculpture of mine that you
particularly like and feel you need a print of it let me know as there’s a
chance that I might already be considering getting it made into a poster print,
and your interest could be the push I need to actually get it done.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-84658176255519439372024-02-07T14:15:00.000-08:002024-02-07T15:37:38.954-08:00 Detritusphere – second progress report<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s been a few days since the last progress report on my
Detritusphere sculpture, and as it’s inching closer to completion, I thought I’d
share a few photos of it with you.</span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvD6Xa2Vf7EZI7iXE5bkkNkFpzZN2wrGMWfUSw2yjgO2KXCuD_S_FKFXIGbDhyL37UYQbLmXoREOazjUN7CI0o1JqTZLATyiz75jE2P1d3DHFVN9ExboQXBKjNM4QwGMYSRgauwmwJG-VBTSYNEGjuuhAIMQldVOWy42NlOEHENbVikr6JWNJIurb9P1tY/s8992/01__Detritusphere_detritosphere_detritus_rusty_metal_sphere_death_star_sculpture_found_objects_materials_UK_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_WIP%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8992" data-original-width="8992" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvD6Xa2Vf7EZI7iXE5bkkNkFpzZN2wrGMWfUSw2yjgO2KXCuD_S_FKFXIGbDhyL37UYQbLmXoREOazjUN7CI0o1JqTZLATyiz75jE2P1d3DHFVN9ExboQXBKjNM4QwGMYSRgauwmwJG-VBTSYNEGjuuhAIMQldVOWy42NlOEHENbVikr6JWNJIurb9P1tY/w640-h640/01__Detritusphere_detritosphere_detritus_rusty_metal_sphere_death_star_sculpture_found_objects_materials_UK_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_WIP%20.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Detritusphere' (work-in-progress), artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As I mentioned in an earlier post, the work is made up of
small pieces of flat metal plates that I’ve mostly either found on the roadside
or dug up from Victorian rubbish dumps that I discovered in the woods of
Shropshire. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTTxkJsY1GdxMfbcVuv4JqXlkWbPJJdzE284m7p7_AsQyc49UFpaWvu0cEzQ5dSAzFR4wirxnpwY-aY1dz2HMiBIaSXZhl71Wfq5MoUh0G1f-AVlHNQXxBkZ0-kY8CCnaSCnjt1zvND9VlC5GyPpF7ffbSPpPSqDNyjsMTyJoMvyzXLKkbYfI3MbVQVzJt/s8992/02_Detritusphere_detritosphere_detritus_rusty_metal_sphere_death_star_sculpture_found_objects_materials_UK_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_WIP%20(18).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8992" data-original-width="8992" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTTxkJsY1GdxMfbcVuv4JqXlkWbPJJdzE284m7p7_AsQyc49UFpaWvu0cEzQ5dSAzFR4wirxnpwY-aY1dz2HMiBIaSXZhl71Wfq5MoUh0G1f-AVlHNQXxBkZ0-kY8CCnaSCnjt1zvND9VlC5GyPpF7ffbSPpPSqDNyjsMTyJoMvyzXLKkbYfI3MbVQVzJt/w640-h640/02_Detritusphere_detritosphere_detritus_rusty_metal_sphere_death_star_sculpture_found_objects_materials_UK_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_WIP%20(18).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Detritusphere' (work-in-progress), artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I’m constructing the sphere by first beating the plates
into the correct curvature, then overlapping them and drilling small holes
through the overlapped sections, through which I thread handmade metal staples.
Once the two legs of each staple are threaded through the holes, I twist them
tightly together to secure the plates in place. I was pleasantly surprised by
how ridge the structure became through this method of construction.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6ZV3gIGaesVZJ0yjrEybJ5qFYHbdhTEESndlsqaAdkh9oLw-XTo6On2wcdrDgMil6bS0QcbP6ygSQJoDV7wVoW5NrdZCrRRDSHBWtAgHpL2HIFm5vz8Ew7dmc7KWz8Z7UIZAm5sp9ctfobdjowJ2ztNEw3uz_akKQrXu-SRfZNw-19xKWgz10c7yqsWTC/s8992/04_Detritusphere_detritosphere_detritus_rusty_metal_sphere_death_star_sculpture_found_objects_materials_UK_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_WIP%20(24).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8992" data-original-width="8992" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6ZV3gIGaesVZJ0yjrEybJ5qFYHbdhTEESndlsqaAdkh9oLw-XTo6On2wcdrDgMil6bS0QcbP6ygSQJoDV7wVoW5NrdZCrRRDSHBWtAgHpL2HIFm5vz8Ew7dmc7KWz8Z7UIZAm5sp9ctfobdjowJ2ztNEw3uz_akKQrXu-SRfZNw-19xKWgz10c7yqsWTC/w640-h640/04_Detritusphere_detritosphere_detritus_rusty_metal_sphere_death_star_sculpture_found_objects_materials_UK_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_WIP%20(24).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Detritusphere' (work-in-progress), artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The reason that I initially put this project on hold for
some time was because I wanted to wait until I had a greater variety of metal
components to use in Detritusphere’s construction. And thanks to <a href="http://www.jamesrollason.co.uk/">Jim Rollason</a>,
a local scrap metal dealer, who very kindly allowed me to wonder around his
scrap yard, collecting the choicest rusty pieces, I now have enough pieces to
finish the work. So I’d like to say a big thank you to Jim for his donation of
materials.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg24jJyG8YBfgOTr4hVo8QGDM_SjTc76GUeItc74NI_q7zgnNXwPFckiDtEVJdLvoz0VmPwWLntHC2qzrd84G_Gnl3iQgZrIY5iOdnwmZkH3oZxdjkDPnRLak61cIUTn_6MqQ8VkfY9KcLb4mRi8UTLEOX_UXWcf-kwoGXr8A8X6k41SYGLU4MedCVDNE75/s8992/05_Detritusphere_detritospher_detritus_rusty_metal_sphere_death_star_sculpture_found_objects_materials_UK_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_WIP%20(2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8992" data-original-width="8992" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg24jJyG8YBfgOTr4hVo8QGDM_SjTc76GUeItc74NI_q7zgnNXwPFckiDtEVJdLvoz0VmPwWLntHC2qzrd84G_Gnl3iQgZrIY5iOdnwmZkH3oZxdjkDPnRLak61cIUTn_6MqQ8VkfY9KcLb4mRi8UTLEOX_UXWcf-kwoGXr8A8X6k41SYGLU4MedCVDNE75/w640-h640/05_Detritusphere_detritospher_detritus_rusty_metal_sphere_death_star_sculpture_found_objects_materials_UK_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_WIP%20(2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Detritusphere' (work-in-progress), artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-5885515798597559482024-02-06T10:08:00.000-08:002024-02-06T10:51:22.364-08:00Hollow Dog Warrior (A3 Poster Print)<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">This A3-sized poster print of Hollow Dog Warrior is a
reproduction of one of my favourite mini oil paintings/sketches from my 2020/21
self-imposed painting challenge, where I set myself the goal of creating 100 new paintings
over a 12 month period.</span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK7Ogk-NPo-iSfeuz1uC-UIw4Cu8ZgpxVmlbkQ6yKSFu7SYB637OETKFFlyjZT-0eKW5IDUBD__5Gq8nY-Wr0gTRX2_YB0pljq3qIEL60bB3eoO9Kn005E83tiJV6AkFV0YWXgq5uW6-YARwDAJLfXLw8A5DWRZ5wsxo5IF3jF6HKig7KB-9iHDOJSySwq/s1664/Hollow_Dog_warrior_oil_painting_A%C2%A3_art_print_artist_Wayen_Chisnall%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1664" data-original-width="1664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK7Ogk-NPo-iSfeuz1uC-UIw4Cu8ZgpxVmlbkQ6yKSFu7SYB637OETKFFlyjZT-0eKW5IDUBD__5Gq8nY-Wr0gTRX2_YB0pljq3qIEL60bB3eoO9Kn005E83tiJV6AkFV0YWXgq5uW6-YARwDAJLfXLw8A5DWRZ5wsxo5IF3jF6HKig7KB-9iHDOJSySwq/w640-h640/Hollow_Dog_warrior_oil_painting_A%C2%A3_art_print_artist_Wayen_Chisnall%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Hollow Dog Warrior', A3-size poster print, artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As with most of paintings from this series, Hollow Dog
Warrior was painted directly onto the painting’s surface without any
preliminary drawings or much in the way of me knowing what I was about to paint
from the moment that I applied paintbrush to paint. I found this form of
automatic painting very liberating and a fruitful creative exercise. It not
only revealed new ideas and characters to me (as is the case with the Hollow
Dogs, a series of cartoon characters that emerged from seemingly nowhere), but
it also allowed me to be more experimental with the way I applied paint.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoob7lMZm-dP9doVKFetNUqLbrUvxpfxNtl2PFQJ8ujd6BfnypHEEH4OINZg1LDSWcC4Dt56E80QOIDeAtUhYb69sDczlJmOCKzsC1hGuRtYztQNAXwKeKDJtrf3MFvrmrC4m7N1KHjxFrDotyGtePdKs9L2DNfbN_jEgQYsey_E8ignfqReTvF5JrbptB/s8436/Hollow_Dog_warrior_oil_painting_A%C2%A3_art_print_artist_Wayen_Chisnall%20(6.5).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8436" data-original-width="6085" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoob7lMZm-dP9doVKFetNUqLbrUvxpfxNtl2PFQJ8ujd6BfnypHEEH4OINZg1LDSWcC4Dt56E80QOIDeAtUhYb69sDczlJmOCKzsC1hGuRtYztQNAXwKeKDJtrf3MFvrmrC4m7N1KHjxFrDotyGtePdKs9L2DNfbN_jEgQYsey_E8ignfqReTvF5JrbptB/w462-h640/Hollow_Dog_warrior_oil_painting_A%C2%A3_art_print_artist_Wayen_Chisnall%20(6.5).jpg" width="462" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Hollow Dog Warrior', A3-size poster print, artist Wayne Chisnall<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The prints are printed on glossy, heavy-duty 300gsm paper,
with digital inks that give a silk finish. One of the things I especially like
about these prints is that, in areas, you can see flecks of highlights and
shadows where from where the paint was more thickly applied on the original
painting.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">There are more poster prints to come, and all of them are
priced at £20 each with free postage. If you’d like one, just DM me or drop me
an email at </span><a href="mailto:waynechisnall@yahoo.co.uk"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">waynechisnall@yahoo.co.uk</span></a><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">If there is a painting or sculpture of mine that you
particularly like and feel you need a print of it let me know as there’s a
chance that I might already be considering getting it made into a poster print,
and your interest could be the push I need to actually get it done.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-12985605944970739442024-02-03T16:02:00.000-08:002024-02-03T16:12:17.872-08:00Rainbow Bear II (A3 Poster Print) If you liked any of the mini oil paintings/sketches from my 2020 ‘100 Paintings in 12 Months Project’ you might be interested to know that I’m having some of my favourite ones made into A3-sized poster prints. So if there is a painting of mine that you particularly like and feel you need a print of it let me know and I’ll see what I can do. <div><br /><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXP3y37EkuNd48YTxfT3ZOEi3lJNnKKARmcHaTRdTpmxfpIV6q7D3dYsrOrpogXLcrBJQJfecXjkeKenI4JKPyZHAEEX5USz6EsS0ifcMuW4bOI_kB7MPtzgE2kZoBrsYID1deoLOCNUgEcEXTOE1lXrvwaXlSx9GjoJS-J5aDvi14hWGnmwbV6JOubTkI/s1494/Rainbow_Bear_II_LGBT_LGBTQ_oil_painting_reproductio_A3_art_print_oil_painting_artist_Wayne_Chisnall%20(6).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1494" data-original-width="1488" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXP3y37EkuNd48YTxfT3ZOEi3lJNnKKARmcHaTRdTpmxfpIV6q7D3dYsrOrpogXLcrBJQJfecXjkeKenI4JKPyZHAEEX5USz6EsS0ifcMuW4bOI_kB7MPtzgE2kZoBrsYID1deoLOCNUgEcEXTOE1lXrvwaXlSx9GjoJS-J5aDvi14hWGnmwbV6JOubTkI/w638-h640/Rainbow_Bear_II_LGBT_LGBTQ_oil_painting_reproductio_A3_art_print_oil_painting_artist_Wayne_Chisnall%20(6).jpg" width="638" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Rainbow Bear II', A-sized poster print, artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>As with most of paintings from this series, Rainbow Bear II was painted directly onto the painting’s surface without any preliminary drawings or much in the way of me knowing what I was about to paint from the moment that I applied paintbrush to paint. I found this form of automatic painting very liberating and a fruitful creative exercise. It not only revealed new ideas and characters to me, but it also allowed me to be more experimental with the way I applied paint. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfHKylNOrDCNL6ZmWf_Sp95AV7HMfrsLLWyXS5vXANwJN46oukBvKQ8uClcrd8QwJpewgCuU1hGT8HK7iQEgMOEf_Ny6LdpDfu6BHgCkxooqZirmsQvRowdy06EtcAaPLJViUt1o_wU2HayEhg7yHjEcdcjXaodBnuDvIvY0JgN3_ziWpGmL8UcvQIsYet/s8392/Rainbow_Bear_II_LGBT_LGBTQ_oil_painting_reproductio_A3_art_print_oil_painting_artist_Wayne_Chisnall%20(7.5).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8392" data-original-width="6046" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfHKylNOrDCNL6ZmWf_Sp95AV7HMfrsLLWyXS5vXANwJN46oukBvKQ8uClcrd8QwJpewgCuU1hGT8HK7iQEgMOEf_Ny6LdpDfu6BHgCkxooqZirmsQvRowdy06EtcAaPLJViUt1o_wU2HayEhg7yHjEcdcjXaodBnuDvIvY0JgN3_ziWpGmL8UcvQIsYet/w462-h640/Rainbow_Bear_II_LGBT_LGBTQ_oil_painting_reproductio_A3_art_print_oil_painting_artist_Wayne_Chisnall%20(7.5).jpg" width="462" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Rainbow Bear II', A-sized poster print, artist Wayne Chisnall<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>There are more poster prints to come and all of them are priced at £20 each with free postage. If you’d like one just DM me or drop me an email at waynechisnall@yahoo.co.uk </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The prints are printed on glossy, heavy-duty 300gsm paper, with digital inks that give a silk finish. One of the things I especially like about these prints is that, in areas, you can see flecks of highlights and shadows where from where the paint was more thickly applied on the original painting.
</div></div>Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-48611675319291845282024-02-03T05:15:00.000-08:002024-02-03T07:44:08.267-08:00Detritusphere – progress report<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">As I’ve just returned to working on my rusty metal
sculpture 'Detritusphere', I thought I’d give you a quick progress report.</span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9sucTkmWJJQ2lv3kAi56jgxOU1K4tcCjBVFGg4mEblA5EOlznNfNxs0aVjB7eioEED3-eqDEwrAz0uevJ7AKExKsCmI9-FSI_kknMXkEg0-cIaIVpkFvOCNQb5_L_V2lbSxis7yRpuViMJ06_sRTrIOsu55BVwhCAP5t6Fd02GL67f9O0FTrAr7JNt_b5/s8992/8_Detritusphere_detritosphere_detritus_rusty_metal_sphere_death_star_sculpture_found_objects_materials_UK_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(7).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8992" data-original-width="8992" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9sucTkmWJJQ2lv3kAi56jgxOU1K4tcCjBVFGg4mEblA5EOlznNfNxs0aVjB7eioEED3-eqDEwrAz0uevJ7AKExKsCmI9-FSI_kknMXkEg0-cIaIVpkFvOCNQb5_L_V2lbSxis7yRpuViMJ06_sRTrIOsu55BVwhCAP5t6Fd02GL67f9O0FTrAr7JNt_b5/w640-h640/8_Detritusphere_detritosphere_detritus_rusty_metal_sphere_death_star_sculpture_found_objects_materials_UK_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(7).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Detritusphere' (work-in-progress) metal sculpture, 2024, artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The work is made up of small pieces of flat metal plates
that I’ve mostly either found on the roadside or dug up from Victorian rubbish dumps
that I discovered in the woods of Shropshire. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8LDfHCh5k3vWX90DWBIMMAAqhlOMMLtDIfbuz1EFGFo7OIBV2mJENKAetRQSHgoYPAkywA-YUUioz5c_ycbWXfl1afeGXTw-ZQdHzW_5jTaZ5g7kWg-bc0Gnjr6meqXVz8uMY6caTJ4auokdjDevhOnRO9GHU-2IUjL_61HDvcAEwPXUozWOFLUYd5aEI/s8992/5_Detritusphere_detritosphere_detritus_rusty_metal_sphere_death_star_sculpture_found_objects_materials_UK_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(9).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8992" data-original-width="8992" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8LDfHCh5k3vWX90DWBIMMAAqhlOMMLtDIfbuz1EFGFo7OIBV2mJENKAetRQSHgoYPAkywA-YUUioz5c_ycbWXfl1afeGXTw-ZQdHzW_5jTaZ5g7kWg-bc0Gnjr6meqXVz8uMY6caTJ4auokdjDevhOnRO9GHU-2IUjL_61HDvcAEwPXUozWOFLUYd5aEI/w640-h640/5_Detritusphere_detritosphere_detritus_rusty_metal_sphere_death_star_sculpture_found_objects_materials_UK_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(9).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Detritusphere' (detail showing metal staples outside of structure) metal sculpture, 2024, artist Wayne Chisnall<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I’m constructing the sphere by first beating the plates into
the correct curvature, then overlapping them and drilling small holes through
the overlapped sections, through which I thread handmade metal staples. Once the
two legs of each staple are threaded through the holes, I twist them tightly
together to secure the plates in place. I was pleasantly surprised by how ridge
the structure became through this method of construction.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQvvAWUgY3-X_XX9Y1b_zJG6fm6csE_e3Fd8BHUvZQ_AetIW7cz75HK8lHg803qkL1wjGpWiYR4W60ogH_v20c6uHN95CNb6OAyqGBW2DIskzekA_WE_WT_gXATLzyKNTXK3eo0m_qoz9iSt9JUMjuLSToSIiFh0lz0FXvhU9X9muofs4E1wgli0_BGFkj/s8992/6_Detritusphere_detritosphere_detritus_rusty_metal_sphere_death_star_sculpture_found_objects_materials_UK_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(10).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8992" data-original-width="8992" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQvvAWUgY3-X_XX9Y1b_zJG6fm6csE_e3Fd8BHUvZQ_AetIW7cz75HK8lHg803qkL1wjGpWiYR4W60ogH_v20c6uHN95CNb6OAyqGBW2DIskzekA_WE_WT_gXATLzyKNTXK3eo0m_qoz9iSt9JUMjuLSToSIiFh0lz0FXvhU9X9muofs4E1wgli0_BGFkj/w640-h640/6_Detritusphere_detritosphere_detritus_rusty_metal_sphere_death_star_sculpture_found_objects_materials_UK_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(10).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Detritusphere' (detail showing metal staples inside structure) metal sculpture, 2024, artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The reason that I put this project on hold for some time
was because I wanted to wait until I had a greater diversity of metal components
to use in Detritusphere’s construction. And a few days ago, I got my wish when
<a href="http://www.jamesrollason.co.uk/">Jim Rollason</a>, a local scrap metal dealer, very kindly allowed me to wonder
around his scrap yard, collecting the choicest rusty pieces. So I’d like to say
a big thank you to Jim for his donation of materials.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjdbWNFeQIPXzsBLtpIctB9YVrpXrXx4Thl3druu6AlmypIcwsNL3rZrbI0BRqx8WCc3N3k0qYOJ6KEdlo9afiCa5SDF_ZrbFh0roufVplK1kPUhoMSoaazTZWjqoQBRnpwaJ_2-1m4R7v-KH6K-2Ck5XIs_imW65tVji6EeO-VTSiHWlmkMepEOEIClib/s8992/4_Detritusphere_detritosphere_detritus_rusty_metal_sphere_death_star_sculpture_found_objects_materials_UK_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(3).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8992" data-original-width="8992" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjdbWNFeQIPXzsBLtpIctB9YVrpXrXx4Thl3druu6AlmypIcwsNL3rZrbI0BRqx8WCc3N3k0qYOJ6KEdlo9afiCa5SDF_ZrbFh0roufVplK1kPUhoMSoaazTZWjqoQBRnpwaJ_2-1m4R7v-KH6K-2Ck5XIs_imW65tVji6EeO-VTSiHWlmkMepEOEIClib/w640-h640/4_Detritusphere_detritosphere_detritus_rusty_metal_sphere_death_star_sculpture_found_objects_materials_UK_artist_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall%20(3).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Detritusphere' (work-in-progress) metal sculpture, 2024, artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-19051639348496355472024-02-02T05:44:00.000-08:002024-02-02T06:31:43.436-08:00Rainbow Bear (A3 Poster Print)<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">If you liked any of the mini oil paintings/sketches from my
2020 ‘100 Paintings in 12 Months Project’ you might be interested to know that
I’m having some of my favourite ones made into A3-sized poster prints. So if
there is a painting of mine that you particularly like and feel you need a
print of it let me know and I’ll see what I can do.</span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjEeJ3ryZjCi2I1i5Mg0_9CJXRp-tY38yF-9Kpp8b6BeI3K-mNg7sJTya8qMuaWhXknzyofP7eFKlKOea8IQyXAztFqVPuqvu6rH4GjZRF3QxQmWkkpB725LjoVdZkJg8PWfaZjfKPpzWtzVPS0_QG3KNLGCsuSlQrs9lwZB2FVs_zIE-i9X0JkafEJd7Q/s1755/Rainbow_Bear_LGBT_LGBTQ_oil_painting_reproductio_A3_art_print_oil_painting_artist_Wayne_Chisnall%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1755" data-original-width="1755" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjEeJ3ryZjCi2I1i5Mg0_9CJXRp-tY38yF-9Kpp8b6BeI3K-mNg7sJTya8qMuaWhXknzyofP7eFKlKOea8IQyXAztFqVPuqvu6rH4GjZRF3QxQmWkkpB725LjoVdZkJg8PWfaZjfKPpzWtzVPS0_QG3KNLGCsuSlQrs9lwZB2FVs_zIE-i9X0JkafEJd7Q/w640-h640/Rainbow_Bear_LGBT_LGBTQ_oil_painting_reproductio_A3_art_print_oil_painting_artist_Wayne_Chisnall%20(2).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Rainbow Bear', A3-sized poster print, artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As with most of paintings from this series, Rainbow Bear
was painted directly onto the painting’s surface without any preliminary
drawings or much in the way of me knowing what I was about to paint from the
moment that I applied paintbrush to paint. I found this form of automatic
painting very liberating and a fruitful creative exercise. It not only revealed
new ideas and characters to me, but it also allowed me to be more experimental
with the way I applied paint.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv1tF1E1tfujLLGIH6gePQ2Jt2e4OVrtoxRoIlSRPwAIwplvwJyKcNh0rf2XB6-dAwKwCn4w75w0f6DHYyXZPN8dXBzK9fnvrawbzH_fj-BbxgCZuuj_s7RB77DwUESRZ2WfhSU9zLD1CagKAuM0VSTlhdGCzPc13j5drblG2XtEIR34azEPWC8Awej_L4/s8515/Rainbow_Bear_LGBT_LGBTQ_oil_painting_reproductio_A3_art_print_oil_painting_artist_Wayne_Chisnall_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8515" data-original-width="6180" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv1tF1E1tfujLLGIH6gePQ2Jt2e4OVrtoxRoIlSRPwAIwplvwJyKcNh0rf2XB6-dAwKwCn4w75w0f6DHYyXZPN8dXBzK9fnvrawbzH_fj-BbxgCZuuj_s7RB77DwUESRZ2WfhSU9zLD1CagKAuM0VSTlhdGCzPc13j5drblG2XtEIR34azEPWC8Awej_L4/w464-h640/Rainbow_Bear_LGBT_LGBTQ_oil_painting_reproductio_A3_art_print_oil_painting_artist_Wayne_Chisnall_.jpg" width="464" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Rainbow Bear', A3-sized poster print, artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">There are more poster prints to come and all of them are
priced at £20 each with free postage. If you’d like one, just DM me or drop me
an email at </span><a href="mailto:waynechisnall@yahoo.co.uk"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">waynechisnall@yahoo.co.uk</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The prints are printed on glossy, heavy-duty 300gsm paper,
with digital inks that give a silk finish. One of the things I especially like
about these prints is that, in areas, you can see flecks of highlights and
shadows where from where the paint was more thickly applied on the original
painting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-74348870544656192322024-02-01T15:48:00.000-08:002024-02-01T15:59:34.623-08:00War of The Rosies<p><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif">In keeping with my recent
posts about my favourite found objects, I thought I’d repost about this one – a piece
that I titled ‘War of the Rosies’. Being made of two found objects, I prefer to
call it a Minimal Intervention Sculpture, rather than a sculpture proper. The
work is composed of a vintage, leather and steel, a child's baseball mask, and a
pair of old horns (probably antelope). I'm not sure why I originally put the
two items together, but to my mind the act of doing so created something greater
than the sum of their parts.</span></p><p><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9-LUrJ1U6xTHAtQzSMelPe0NcY1LVeoHQ03orfvbP54h6gEJz4QJNhbDB1KYxLqdND9mDtsW5uEKzMVc-Wvtwdu7NXHBhNdrqheRYY4F1SNX2dvBvV4yywKgGhVfBDJTob62txRsM7Zt34yHOt_nJZwUQR3WOwN42mMUdABv61MMGJFm_yLOKB4nkC5fi/s4724/War_of_the_Rosies_assemblage_found_object_famous_art_artwork_sculpture_horns_baseball_mask_britsh_sculptor_artist_Wayne_Chisnall.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4724" data-original-width="4724" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9-LUrJ1U6xTHAtQzSMelPe0NcY1LVeoHQ03orfvbP54h6gEJz4QJNhbDB1KYxLqdND9mDtsW5uEKzMVc-Wvtwdu7NXHBhNdrqheRYY4F1SNX2dvBvV4yywKgGhVfBDJTob62txRsM7Zt34yHOt_nJZwUQR3WOwN42mMUdABv61MMGJFm_yLOKB4nkC5fi/w640-h640/War_of_the_Rosies_assemblage_found_object_famous_art_artwork_sculpture_horns_baseball_mask_britsh_sculptor_artist_Wayne_Chisnall.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And the reason for the title, you ask? Well, the horns and mask combo remind me of some bizarre warrior mask
(hence the ‘War’ part of the title), and both elements were gifted to me by
ex-girlfriends, a Rose and a Rosie. So it’s basically a bad pun (I'm not normally a fan of puns) on the series
of 15<sup>th</sup> Century English civil wars known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_the_Roses">War of The Roses</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-16824581549322276032024-01-30T10:11:00.000-08:002024-01-30T10:20:57.471-08:00Scratchy Bunny Man (A3 Poster Print)<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">If you liked any of the mini oil paintings/sketches from my
2020 ‘100 Paintings in 12 Months Project’ you might be interested to know that
I’ve had some of my favourite ones made into A3-sized poster prints.</span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi_bR5-6Git0i_xsmYCDLA7GEx4BCT0YS0WsuUx2rsfGZ6OAB_Nyc4K6d7Z5IzC2MfHM9IQxGfWjdUzzbymqlQDclcv6gdlQIMmqowL00qNKFBiPuypVBu1bPsJcVlLE5kmitC9phBEsFFpAa68Pu2V-3hTcyybQdPadsDuR1bdk2HvAyw-4jlBSix11rI/s1496/Scratchy_Bunny_Man_oil_painting_reproductio_A3_art_print_oil_painting_artist_Wayne_Chisnall%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1496" data-original-width="1490" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi_bR5-6Git0i_xsmYCDLA7GEx4BCT0YS0WsuUx2rsfGZ6OAB_Nyc4K6d7Z5IzC2MfHM9IQxGfWjdUzzbymqlQDclcv6gdlQIMmqowL00qNKFBiPuypVBu1bPsJcVlLE5kmitC9phBEsFFpAa68Pu2V-3hTcyybQdPadsDuR1bdk2HvAyw-4jlBSix11rI/w638-h640/Scratchy_Bunny_Man_oil_painting_reproductio_A3_art_print_oil_painting_artist_Wayne_Chisnall%20(1).jpg" width="638" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Scratchy Bunny Man', A3-sized poster print by artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As with most of paintings from this series, Scratchy Bunny
Man was painted directly onto the painting’s surface (in this case, a small
block of strand board) without any preliminary drawings or much in the way of
me knowing what I was about to paint from the moment that I applied paintbrush
to paint. I found this form of automatic painting very liberating and a fruitful
creative exercise. It not only revealed new ideas and characters to me, but it
also allowed me to be more experimental with the way I applied paint.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicSNbt9l5xkUYguH6g8qv7yMcae8InyXImo06Yv-XjzlFaVuQQYycTP7B2eAcO3x_aEt5Bkiwm8GSWQ9sJjaVOYmjHOUlpkeCvITivf247_KoGklFkB7CTRcoUBhYiLcyM8HgEYagns3Nn2dTNRGVaa_e-jBhP7K5xMOSEgkR2yPu724HL-7I5-HJzLWkJ/s8115/Scratchy_Bunny_Man_oil_painting_reproductio_A3_art_print_oil_painting_artist_Wayne_Chisnall%20(3).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8115" data-original-width="5752" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicSNbt9l5xkUYguH6g8qv7yMcae8InyXImo06Yv-XjzlFaVuQQYycTP7B2eAcO3x_aEt5Bkiwm8GSWQ9sJjaVOYmjHOUlpkeCvITivf247_KoGklFkB7CTRcoUBhYiLcyM8HgEYagns3Nn2dTNRGVaa_e-jBhP7K5xMOSEgkR2yPu724HL-7I5-HJzLWkJ/w454-h640/Scratchy_Bunny_Man_oil_painting_reproductio_A3_art_print_oil_painting_artist_Wayne_Chisnall%20(3).jpg" width="454" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Scratchy Bunny Man', A3-sized poster print by artist Wayne Chisnall<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">There are more poster prints to come and all of them are
priced at £20 each with free postage. If you’d like one just DM me or drop me
an email at </span><a href="mailto:waynechisnall@yahoo.co.uk"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">waynechisnall@yahoo.co.uk</span></a><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The prints are printed on glossy, heavy-duty 300gsm paper,
with digital inks that give a silk finish. One of things I especially like
about these prints is that, in areas, you can see flecks of highlights and
shadows where from where the paint was more thickly applied on the original
painting.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br />Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-44536204335259120872024-01-30T09:35:00.000-08:002024-01-30T09:39:23.574-08:00Chained Heart<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Following on from my earlier post about Thames finds, I
thought I would share this one with you. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">I discovered it whilst <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudlark">mudlarking</a> on the South Bank of the
River Thames, and it appears to be a conglomerate of old rusty chains, bits of
rock, glass, and congealed London clay.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCvVY5XQlFGByVFTVsL5ZWvqbYuMPIHqN4BWydPUU9UmQllGdYdgcgCCsEfNeNmU9TuNzyVX1M3yzhYo5b4CFQVavDwZEqZeyzGuwsCpW-XfritTc8O6_7q4PpmVmrcaZ2imMoavhtYb9ZY5mtMvY52JqRbP5i2wEjkRBLdPBl0ouGaVhAPzNn-lpzGUR0/s3331/1_Stone_metal_chain_Heart_shaped_brown_green_mudlark_thames_river_sculpture_found_object_british_artists_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3331" data-original-width="3278" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCvVY5XQlFGByVFTVsL5ZWvqbYuMPIHqN4BWydPUU9UmQllGdYdgcgCCsEfNeNmU9TuNzyVX1M3yzhYo5b4CFQVavDwZEqZeyzGuwsCpW-XfritTc8O6_7q4PpmVmrcaZ2imMoavhtYb9ZY5mtMvY52JqRbP5i2wEjkRBLdPBl0ouGaVhAPzNn-lpzGUR0/w630-h640/1_Stone_metal_chain_Heart_shaped_brown_green_mudlark_thames_river_sculpture_found_object_british_artists_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_%20(1).jpg" width="630" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Chained Heart', found object, artist Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I coated it in wax to help preserve it and to enhance the
rich dark colours. It’s one of those objects that fits comfortably in your hand,
seems to reek of history, and feels like it wants to tell you its story. I also
love the way that it’s vaguely heart-shaped.<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-65234295898002694482024-01-28T14:26:00.000-08:002024-01-28T14:36:00.387-08:00Bride of Frankenstein (A3 Poster Print)<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">I hope you like my little tribute to the actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Lanchester">Elsa Lanchester</a> with this, my new A3-sized poster print based upon one of my small
oil sketches of her in the role of The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_of_Frankenstein">Bride of Frankenstein</a>. In the 1935
horror movie, directed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Whale">James Whale</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Karloff">Boris Karloff</a> reprised his role of the
monster (from the 1931 film, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein_(1931_film)">Frankenstein</a>) whilst Elsa played the monster’s less
than enthusiastic bride.</span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKNdwDja0bwKTvS28h8Fv2EziHHF_TjHXkZLew9v25C9r58BlZqQOxsEfAnXJBNEnikQ2Py7UNS5lT7zQP7aH0nofQaJsotgOWXRx8cxqHY0HgWBmDAXB2Zo5iv5VmhLEFvaeQUgmOLM9fN3MhSW3-_dWc-yKF9GVEwsWUXOHaibE_CAW4xM5SU46GmEES/s1658/1_Bride_Of_Frankenstein_painting_art_print_wayne_chisnall.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1658" data-original-width="1650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKNdwDja0bwKTvS28h8Fv2EziHHF_TjHXkZLew9v25C9r58BlZqQOxsEfAnXJBNEnikQ2Py7UNS5lT7zQP7aH0nofQaJsotgOWXRx8cxqHY0HgWBmDAXB2Zo5iv5VmhLEFvaeQUgmOLM9fN3MhSW3-_dWc-yKF9GVEwsWUXOHaibE_CAW4xM5SU46GmEES/w636-h640/1_Bride_Of_Frankenstein_painting_art_print_wayne_chisnall.jpg" width="636" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Bride of Frankenstein' A3-sized poster print by artist Wayne Chsnall</td></tr></tbody></table><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">There are more poster prints to come and all of them are
priced at £20 each with free postage. If you’d like one just DM me or drop me
an email at <a href="mailto:waynechisnall@yahoo.co.uk">waynechisnall@yahoo.co.uk</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16px;">The prints are printed on glossy, heavy-duty 300gsm paper, with digital inks that give a silk finish. One of things I especially like about these prints is that, in areas, you can see flecks of highlights and shadows where from where the paint was more thickly applied on the original painting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4eQLZKfYGyghp9WfnQKnZaj2e1mUWrj8_pxXwngiAkl-gZHcFKhUF97AW-JSBiZ6u-4vHpTnCnYT-IxVmnJA_kRR8qyGb72cF_yKfCHvAv0kIRkIX-5c2iHFdckaiO5d-cz_JL88OUJKnYdkds8ldBHOHhxJ4cnf8dQnBP2p4Y9EF1-HzzlN-Jb_upZ1J/s8065/Bride_Of_Frankenstein_Elsa_Lanchester_painting_art_print_wayne_chisnall_affordable_cheap_art.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8065" data-original-width="5734" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4eQLZKfYGyghp9WfnQKnZaj2e1mUWrj8_pxXwngiAkl-gZHcFKhUF97AW-JSBiZ6u-4vHpTnCnYT-IxVmnJA_kRR8qyGb72cF_yKfCHvAv0kIRkIX-5c2iHFdckaiO5d-cz_JL88OUJKnYdkds8ldBHOHhxJ4cnf8dQnBP2p4Y9EF1-HzzlN-Jb_upZ1J/w456-h640/Bride_Of_Frankenstein_Elsa_Lanchester_painting_art_print_wayne_chisnall_affordable_cheap_art.jpg" width="456" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Bride of Frankenstein' A3-sized poster print by artist Wayne Chsnall</td></tr></tbody></table></p>Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-43853383182079284342024-01-28T09:04:00.000-08:002024-01-28T09:13:32.498-08:00Thames Flame<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As I’m sure you know, I’m a big fan of the found object,
and am keen to use found/recycled materials in much of my work. Most of the
time, I heavily manipulate the materials in order to create the sculptures I
want, but occasionally I’ll just combine two different forms together, letting
their juxtaposition tell the story. Even though it sometimes feels like
cheating, with these Minimal Intervention Sculptures, it’s usually the case that
less is more.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Aa_kMabwc2K5ikZ8y6sH0ZdVGt2_I60oYSsVSlJIrrb-9FXj_B-vTY-KZDM0JcGEzCyGNqV-L4ut7JLsGUO2YVeBYgueIN60iov1klZPSD6CetM463bUvcI4ykgSkGLVGR5fQIHKXTpoTRbynJOh11ihjnASqkah-vQatmRSUSi7n67xedrgm9DpAT4T/s2362/Sacred_Eternal_Thames_Flame_found_object_materials_art_sculpture_mudlarking_mudlark_british_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2362" data-original-width="1673" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Aa_kMabwc2K5ikZ8y6sH0ZdVGt2_I60oYSsVSlJIrrb-9FXj_B-vTY-KZDM0JcGEzCyGNqV-L4ut7JLsGUO2YVeBYgueIN60iov1klZPSD6CetM463bUvcI4ykgSkGLVGR5fQIHKXTpoTRbynJOh11ihjnASqkah-vQatmRSUSi7n67xedrgm9DpAT4T/w454-h640/Sacred_Eternal_Thames_Flame_found_object_materials_art_sculpture_mudlarking_mudlark_british_sculptor_Wayne_Chisnall_.JPG" width="454" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Thames Flame', found object sculpture, Wayne Chisnall</td></tr></tbody></table><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">However, every so often I’ll find an object that is so
perfect as it is that it requires on intervention at all (except maybe a good, preserving
coating of wax), as was the case with this lovely piece of wood that I found
whilst <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudlark">mudlarking</a> along the Thames in London. I have no idea how many decades
or even hundreds of years it might have lay in the river, but it looks as
though the flow of silty water has slowly carved the wood, wearing away the
softer parts of the grain, in order to reveal what to my eye looks like a flame
caught in a strong breeze. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As the saying goes, ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’,
and I see beauty in this piece of nature-carved art. I’m not sure what to name
it. I’m torn between ‘Eternal Flame’, ‘Sacred Flame’, or just plain ‘Thames
Flame’. Any thoughts?<o:p></o:p></span></p>Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084625962407615485.post-74444878318598247652024-01-27T07:46:00.000-08:002024-01-27T08:05:17.632-08:00The Monster (A3 Print)<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">If you liked any of the mini oil paintings/sketches from my
2020 ‘100 Paintings in 12 Months Project’ you might be interested to know that I’ve
had some of my favourite ones made into A3-sized poster prints.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5hfnnOtQF0Ne5s7i_N-dZeu9cS_ggi_Rckdvup9rwcX5ieJndQNryPTN8LLWDeUwGp1n4tQE-kGqEGiPOYzd-8qN9rU_P3O3OjPyxvZxCJxhBANY-II69Anx8miWTv_NYPwhv7V4dS8DN_VDjC8_DYdT_QtAdcqOE2UPuY4TdvU3yDRrurnBYjLo8iGkY/s1476/The_Monster_oil_painting_frankenstein_A3_art_print_british_artist_wayne_Chisnall%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1476" data-original-width="1476" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5hfnnOtQF0Ne5s7i_N-dZeu9cS_ggi_Rckdvup9rwcX5ieJndQNryPTN8LLWDeUwGp1n4tQE-kGqEGiPOYzd-8qN9rU_P3O3OjPyxvZxCJxhBANY-II69Anx8miWTv_NYPwhv7V4dS8DN_VDjC8_DYdT_QtAdcqOE2UPuY4TdvU3yDRrurnBYjLo8iGkY/w640-h640/The_Monster_oil_painting_frankenstein_A3_art_print_british_artist_wayne_Chisnall%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'The Monster' by Wayne Chisnall, A3-sized poster print on heavy stock 300gsm paper</td></tr></tbody></table><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">So far, there are 7 different prints available. I’ll post
about the others soon, but for now I’d like to introduce you to probably my
favourite of the bunch, ‘The Monster’. This is my take on the creature from the
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley">Mary Shelley</a> classic, ‘<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein">Frankenstein</a>’. In this painting, I hoped to capture some
of the mournful or melancholic quality that I feel the Monster imbues. Whether
it be through the black and white horror movies of the 1930s (which I so loved
as a child, but which now seem so slow paced and hard to watch) or through
Shelley’s poignant writing in the original novel, I always sympathised (and
probably identified) more with the monster. In this piece, I worked quite
quickly, using rough, gestural strokes, trying to echo the way that the monster
in the novel was probably created; roughly and without much forethought for
aesthetics or beauty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCkS3djIkQJhxtnXSyqI1I603usS4F8cE68PxouEYXRLULeQi1cBK0rVEqiMaeLx96yIKgYJ3m1oY1O8yQWiIu6bjoVyfv9kOfDPfdC6nfSNFJYAcyNPzX77oXXMFeygYClFHUNpEjf82_tzgnPNwMN5HF7_zUb85uP_F7SM425OIW2UGA1zImVyCM-O74/s7888/The_Monster_oil_painting_frankenstein_A3_art_print_british_artist_wayne_Chisnall%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7888" data-original-width="5583" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCkS3djIkQJhxtnXSyqI1I603usS4F8cE68PxouEYXRLULeQi1cBK0rVEqiMaeLx96yIKgYJ3m1oY1O8yQWiIu6bjoVyfv9kOfDPfdC6nfSNFJYAcyNPzX77oXXMFeygYClFHUNpEjf82_tzgnPNwMN5HF7_zUb85uP_F7SM425OIW2UGA1zImVyCM-O74/w452-h640/The_Monster_oil_painting_frankenstein_A3_art_print_british_artist_wayne_Chisnall%20(2).jpg" width="452" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'The Monster' by Wayne Chisnall, A3-sized poster print on heavy stock 300gsm paper<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The prints are printed on glossy, heavy-duty 300gsm paper,
with digital inks that give a silk finish. One of the things I especially like
about these prints is that, in areas, you can see flecks of highlights and
shadows where from where the paint, in the original painting, was more thickly applied to the work's surface.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">All of the prints are £20 each with free postage. If you’d
like one, just DM me or drop me an email at waynechisnall@yahoo.co.uk<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>Wayne Chisnallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07575127770174664298noreply@blogger.com0