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Reading Into Tomorrow - Oil on canvas.

I was experimenting with painting using only very few colours and using colour to express mood. I had this painting in mind to reflect on the issue of the energy crisis in the future. How much are we dependent on electrical technology for communication and entertainment. Try going just one day without using anything electrical whatsoever. It’s not as easy as it sounds. Where would you be without your iphone, or your Kindle, or you computer? I have to admit, I’m not sure I’d like it myself.

The character in the painting is a self portrait. I’ve often used myself for many of my paintings, even if the characters are physically different, I still find myself an inexpensive and readily available model when I need such reference. I do enjoy using and painting other people when I get the opportunity.

Here I am while I was working on, Reading Into Tomorrow.

Prints of Reading Into Tomorrow, can be seen and purchased here, along with many others.

www.2canvas.co.uk Paul Reeves Art

And here.

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I really wanted to try something a little different for these paintings. My background and training is in Scientific and Technical drawing, and many of my paintings, particularly my earlier ones, I have focused a great deal of effort into very intricate detail and perspective accuracy. I still focus a great deal of effort into my work and I have been developing and still exploring a much more distinctive style, which I am very happy with.

Poppies In The Wind - Acrylic on canvas.

I felt like trying to create an impressionist style of painting, and focus more on capturing an emotion as well as freezing an image in time. I do paint a lot of surreal paintings, and even my figurative work, I try to capture an emotion as well as an image, but with these new paintings I wanted the emotion to be the focus of attention.

Storm In The Poppies - Acrylic on canvas.

I have created quite a few paintings on the subject of war, and the damage it causes, but here I wanted to pay respect to those who have picked up arms in order to secure a privileged future for the rest of us. I hope I’ve managed to do that.

Prints of Poppies In The Wind, & Storm In The Poppies, can be seen and purchased here, along with many others.

www.2canvas.co.uk Paul Reeves Art

And here.

www.pearlprints.co.uk Paul Reeves Art

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I really got thinking about the process. Process of the ring, the process of life, I am not really sure but non the less the process of transformation!
I have been making jewelry for only one short year now. I started last December when I wanted to make a special gift for my partner. My partner is an artist, the kind that makes you question your  own talents and capabilities. He is an extremely supportive partner and always has kind critiques that guide and shape my ideas. Never a bad word to say, he  is just so talented that his work makes mine look pale in  comparison. So when I decided to create a incense burner for him it had to be cool! 

And so it all began with a  tall clay dragon head in blues and purples with eyes that look real and the best part is the incense smoke comes out of his nostrils. David was thrilled and I felt amazing! I began exploring. Exploring with every and anything I could get my hands on and the process was in motion. 

Wire twisted and beads hung on store bought rings, ear wires I bought turned into handcrafted ear wires and head pins. Copper wire became my love. I created and oxidized it, making earrings, bracelets and necklaces. Some with store bought parts but it soon transformed into my own hand crafted parts. The process has taken me far in a short period of time and yet I am so very new to the craft quickly.  
Everyday I learn things like soldering is no easy chore. Understanding metal alloy, its heating points and hardening techniques. Understanding that there are different levels of hard to soft solder and that when trying to create a prong you can not use the same solder that holds the prongs together, to solder the prongs to the band...lol

Like I said, I am a newbie, and I have been given a gift to create free form. I am into the ever changing process and I love it! Transformation, transition its a beautiful part of life and I appreciate the opportunity to sit at my table and explore art, explore life and share what I come up with. 

Namaste'

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