New Works in Progress

New Works in Progress

All 24x30cm on canvas panel

Acrylic and mixed media

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ORANGE is...

I always new there was an orange person inside me waiting to get out! Perhaps this explains why there is usually some orange in every painting and this makes me feel good about using it.
 

 IMPROBABLE JOURNEY

by Marion Hedger

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Photofunia Sunday Fun -

Come and Discover With Me in a museum setting. I love using the app photofunia to see the art in different settings. Of course, it is no where near as large as this but I do take commissions... 😁😁😁

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New Work - Don't Stop Until You Arrive

DON'T STOP UNTIL YOU ARRIVE

by Marion Hedger

Acrylic on canvas

50x60cm

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Wander through this mythical landscape with echoes of your travels. Where to go? over or round? over here or over there?

The layers on layers of this painting adds richness and depth keeping you wondering where to wander to next with your eyes.

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New Work - Come and Discover With Me

COME AND DISCOVER WITH ME

Acrylic on panel

40x40cm

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Evoking the desire the go exploring and see what is around the next bend, hill, mountain is expressed and suggested with colour and shapes in this abstract landscape.

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Artwork Exhibition at View Gallery

Art by Marion Hedger

exhibition at View Gallery in Thames Ditton

There is still time to see this exhibition, it runs until the end of next week. Thames Ditton is a typical small English Village near Hampton Court Palace. Contact me or the gallery for information on any of these paintings.

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Phases of a painting, are you in the middle middle or the beginning of the end?

Work in Progress Diptych.

Where am I in the process?

Recently I listened to a trailer for an interview by Nicholas Wilton talking to Mark Eanes.

Mark Eanes suggested that a good way of looking at the painting process is as a three step process, the beginning, the middle and the end. Each of these have three parts - a beginning a middle and an end, so nine phases in all.

I love this way of thinking about the process and it really gels with me and helps me assess where I am at. I has helped me to visualise what I have done in a meaningful way and how much more there is to do. For example, recently I felt that I wasn't getting past the beginning, but when I stood back and assessed the work I had done and what else I wanted to do, I felt I was further along the process and maybe more to the middle of the middle. Not foolproof of course, but a help.

For example in the work in progress above. I am at the beginning of the end. Realising that, cheered me up no end. 😊


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Most Asked Questions at the Art Fair

THE PATH IS NEVER CLEAR

40X40cm on cradled panel.

Framed in a white floating frame

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Over 4000 visitors visited the Surrey Contemporary Art Fair. It was very busy most of the time from the time the doors opened until about an hour before closing. I'm pleased to say that many of them visited my stand and several stopped and chatted about the paintings.

Similar questions came up time and time again:

How long did it take you paint that?
I became quite adept at explaining that it was difficult to say, as I worked on several paintings at a time for weeks and I won't have any new paintings ready for a while and then several become finished within a short time frame.

Is it collage?
Perhaps it is because I labeled them 'Mixed Media' but possibly also because the layering can make it look as though there might be paper underneath. The 'Mixed Media' tag was used because various media was used in the mark making, e.g. oil pastel, ink, pencil, coloured pencil etc. Perhaps next time I will just say 'acrylic'. I'd be interested in your take on this.

How do you get that gloss finish?
The paintings are finished with a layer of self-leveling get which is brilliant gloss. This is knocked back by a layer of buffed wax to reduce the shine, although it is still quite shiny. This is a finish promoted by Nicolas Wilton and I am still making up my mind on whether I like it or not - my preference is a satin finish.

There were more questions, which I will save for another post.

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DURING THE STORM Finished

DURING THE STORM

Abstract painting

30x40cm (12x16in)

Acrylic on mountboard

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I put the finisishing touches to this painting and it is now available in my Etsy shop. There is a lot of texture on the black 'cloud'.

Some close-ups

 

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Nod to Monet, Day 6 30 paintings in 30 days

Nod to Monet

Palette knife painting

Oil, 55x46cm on stretched canvas

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Day 6 of Jan 2017 30 paintings challenge

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Another painting that started out a few years ago. I used to participate a lot in several monthly challenges on wetcanvas.com, it is a great website with forums for everything and everyone is so helpful to beginners and it is where I learnt so much about art. 

A forum I used to participate in most of the time was the Floral and Botanical forum. One of their monthly challenges was to paint waterliles. I chose to paint water lilies á la Monet. Not too bad for my stage of painting at the time, but nothing spectacular. Having changed computers a few times since then, the original photo is lost in time. Over the last year, I have resurrected this painting and tried to bring it to life. Although the results were not bad, they were not good. Determined to not let a good canvas go to waste, I attacked it again and turned it into an abstract.

This was how it was left at my last attempt 

Today I scraped off the major bits of texture and looked at it again. Remembering the lessons from Nicholas Wilton about 'scale', once again the painting seemed to be very similar on both sides and most of the colour blocks were the same size. I increased the size of some of the colour blocks and highlighted an eye path through the painting to a focal point of the brightest pink. I think that area still needs some work, but it works much better. As you see, me and my painting have a lot of history. Give me your input and let me know what else this painting needs.

Namibia Impressions Coastal Morning - Adding Scale

Well I've decided to do another 30 paintings in 30 days challenge hosted by Leslie Saeta. I have a love/hate relationship with these challenges - I like to see the new body of works at the end and making sure I get into the studio each day but the self-inflicted stress well... it is not so much the painting, it's the posting on the blogs and social media that I find taxing.

My first painting for 2017 is another Namibia Impressions of the sunrise on the coast line just after the fog has lifted.

Namibia Impressions Coastal Morning

40x50cm (16x20inches)

Oil on stretched canvas
Day 1 of January 2017 30 paintings in 30 days

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450€

(50% goes to Save the Rhino Fund)

I started this in 2015 when I did my first Namibia Impressions series, but somehow I always felt something was missing. I scaled my concept up to a 40x50cm stretched canvas but it wasn't quite working.

Here is how it was

the colours are a bit off, especially in the sky as the photo was taken indoors but it will give you an idea of the previous shapes.

As I looked at the painting, to some advice from Nicholas Wilton - he has great tips and I have followed him for his advice for the last six months or so - came to mind about 'scale'. I noticed that all my marks were more or less the same size. I covered the canvas with liquin and but in larger areas of paint. I should have taken some photos at this stage, but as so oftern happens I was in the painting 'zone' and didn't even think about it. It immediately made the painting come more to life. As I worked on it some more I realised that the marks were still similar shapes, so adding the vertical marks gave another dimension. I am more pleased with it now and I am calling it finished.

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Day 1 Namibia Impressions 1, Save the Rhino fundraising 30 paintings in 30

 

Namibia Impressions 1, Swakopmund Fog

Oil palette knife painting

30x30cm (12x12inches) on 3mm MDF canvas panel

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50% of the sale goes to the Save the Rhino Trust who patrol and monitor the desert adapted black rhinos of the Namib desert

My first paintings are abstracts representing my feelings of Namibia.

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