Monthly Archives: April 2013

024 – all these have flaws

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024 - all these have flaws. Collage by David Smith

024 – all these have flaws
Paper, ink and watercolour 229mm x 152mm

I was doing a large meditative drawing today, exploring chaos and control and carried a bit of it into this collage.

023 – the rules of incongruity

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023 - the rules of incongruity. Collage by David Smith

023 – the rules of incongruity
Paper, ink and watercolour 229mm x 152mm

I am interested in exploring why some things go together, some clash, some make beauty, some excite, some create ugliness. What conditioning makes us each see things differently or agree on their qualities?

022 – Cogden again

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022 - Cogden again. Collage by David Smith

022 – Cogden again
Paper, wave-battered aluminium, found fishing tackle and watercolour 290mm x 210mm

Really struggled with the photography on this one. I must upgrade my Photoshop skills. This piece features a wave-battered aluminium can fragment and discarded fishing tackle found today on Hive and Cogden Beaches, the next ones along from the beaches featured in the ITV drama Broadchurch .

021 – on Cogden Beach

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021 - on Cogden Beach. Collage by David Smith

021 – on Cogden Beach
Paper, sea-battered aluminium and watercolour 152mm x 229mm

This is associated with the Tidelines project that I am working on. The aluminium can base was found on Cogden Beach on the beautiful Jurassic coast just along from where the TV series Broadchurch was filmed. I have been looking for a place to use it. I am really pleased with the way this piece turned out and it has spurred me on to experiment further in some of the larger pieces I am working on.

020 – ready if it comes

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020 - ready if it comes. Collage by David Smith

020 – ready if it comes
Paper and found fishing line 229mm x 152mm

This relates to my Tidelines project and the beaches at Cuckmere Haven and Shingle Street

019 – it’s not one of those kinda things

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019 - it's not one of those kinda things. Collage by David Smith

019 – it’s not one of those kinda things
Paper and watercolour 170mm x 110mm

Just a small one today. Late after a busy day at the Film Festival this morning, lunch with friends, afternoon and evening with a client. More of a postcard than a letter.