I admit this new drawing isn’t a cause for personal celebration. It’s a completion of a series of works spanning the last few years, that I wish to see the end of now, begging for a closure of a wound through which the works have spoken. I once thought this was just self-dislike, but it’sContinue reading “Historicide/”Who made the monster?””
Category Archives: drawings
Monochrome takes on works from the last 10 years.
Around ten years ago it began to become seem necessary to introduce elements of colour variation into my drawings. Before this time they nearly entirely monochrome. I lost sight of the qualities of Monochrome, that colour can often compete with the context. Sometimes this works really well, but sometimes it doesn’t, and I guess there’sContinue reading “Monochrome takes on works from the last 10 years.”
2023 in Visual work
2. ‘Hell has too many faces (roughly 115x80cm, mixed media on paper). 3. ‘We’ll make bones of you…’ (roughly 120X80cm, mixed media on paper) 4. ‘Running on Gaslight’ (Roughly 80x120cm, mixed media on paper)
Running on Gaslight
Running on Gaslight is my most recent drawing. Been working on this idea for most of the year, so it was nice to finally execute it. The work is around 80×130 cm, but I can’t be certain, and it’s mixed media. No further explanation needed. (ps. why does WordPress make a dog’s dinner of photosContinue reading “Running on Gaslight”
Retrieval
I’m fully aware that buying back a work that you sold to somebody, when you don’t have much money yourself, still looks like more money than sense. But long story short, “I want none of this” from 2010/11, is one of my most important works, and also a work that the now/then-owner had no realContinue reading “Retrieval”
‘We’ll make bones of you’
‘We’ll make bones of you’ is my most recent work. Mixed media on paper, 2023. Cheers. I may be a nobody in the art world, unable to network, talk the talk, do what ‘you have to do’ to get traction. I may be both unable and unwilling (in equal measure) to make what I doContinue reading “‘We’ll make bones of you’”
‘Bland alive’
‘Hell has too many faces’
Please to introduce my new work ‘Hell has too many faces’ Possibly the most idiotic thing I have ever made. But I shouldn’t fear making idiotic blunders. No artist should.
The Ever-aftermath
‘The Ever-aftermath’ (2023).
‘Back to Normalism’ at Fossgate Social
One half of ‘Back to Normalism’ is at the Fossgate Social, on Fossgate in York. It consists of smaller scale works. However these works are of no less importance than my larger works.
John B Ledger 