IVANOV: WEATHER REPORT : PAPA WESTRAY 2007

last update: 20 DECEMBER 2008

WEATHER REPORT : PAPA WESTRAY 2007

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IN APRIL we established IVANOV + CHAN - our new studio on PAPA WESTRAY, also known as PAPAY, the island - 4 miles long and 1 mile wide - far away from London washed by waves of Atlantic on one side and northern sea on other. Two seas are meeting at the north tip of the island - THE BORE - the boiling soup of seas. The island has 6000 years of continuous history and the wide open view. Sometime it feels like being on the Moon. Time has transformed strangely here. Work is undisrupted and calm and unrestrained.
New paintings are developing from the air of the island - its textures and weather changes - from long days of summer into the darkness of winter.
I'm writing rather than painting here: endless novels and poems of big oil paintings; short stories of water based mediums. Weather, landscape, memories, books, dance are over layered in it creating a visual philosophy of the landscape, the place. Not giving answers and not even creating questions – rather territories of contemplation.












APRIL - DECEMBER 2007. AROUND THE ISLAND AND STUDIO. 1. Shipwreck at Horse Flags. 2. Dead Bird. 3-4. Corrosion of Steel. 5 - 7. Tangled Ropes, Nets and Wires by the Shore. 8. Seaweeds. 9 - 12. Animals. 13 - 18. Vernacular Architecture. 19. Knap of Howar. 20. St. Boniface Kirk. 21 - 22. Sky. 23. Sea. 24. Sheepy Geo. Holm of Papa 25. NEW PAINTINGS DEVELOPING FROM BLACK PRIMED PANELS. 26 - 28. THE STUDIO. Work in Progress. 29. CELLORHYTHMYCS GIG in The Studio. 30. After Gig Jam in the Studio. 31. James Hesford rehearsing. 32 - 35. Exhibition View. 36. Beast in the field 37 - 40. FIEL PAINTING 41 - 42. STRETCHERS AND THE VIEW THROUGH THE HOLE. 43. BIG BLACK SUSPENDED LUMP OF PAINT. 48. RED GATES OF THE BOAT HOUSE BY THE OLD PIER.

PAINTINGS

Runnapitten 1. Mixed Media on Panel. 200 x 244cm.	Runnapitten 2. Mixed Media on Panel. 200 x 244cm.

The Kimmo 1. Mixed Media on Panel. 200 x 244cm.	The Kimmo 2. Mixed Media on Panel. 200 x 244cm.

Naust 1. Mixed Media on Panel. 44 x 244cm.

Naust 2. Mixed Media on Panel. 44 x 244cm.

Naust 3. Mixed Media on Panel. 44 x 244cm.

Naust 4. Mixed Media on Panel. 44 x 244cm.

BROCH

Broch 14 . Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 x 90cm	Broch 15 . Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 x 90cm	Broch 16 . Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 x 90cm	Broch 17. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 x 90cm

Broch 18. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 x 90cm	Broch 19. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 x 90cm	Broch 20. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 x 90cm	Broch 21. Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 x 90cm

BURNT

Burnt 1. Oil on Canvasl. 90 x 70cm	Burnt 2. Oil on Canvasl. 90 x 70cm	Burnt 3. Oil on Canvasl. 90 x 70cm

Burnt 4. Oil on Canvasl. 90 x 70cm	Burnt 5. Oil on Canvasl. 90 x 70cm	Burnt 6. Oil on Canvasl. 90 x 70cm

Burnt 7. Oil on Canvasl. 90 x 70cm	Burnt 8. Oil on Canvasl. 90 x 70cm	Burnt 9. Oil on Canvasl. 90 x 70cm


Clyar 1. Oil on Canvasl. 90 x 70cm each.	Clyar 2. Oil on Canvasl. 90 x 70cm each.

THE BORE

The Bore 1. Mixed Media on Panel. 55 x 44cm	The Bore 2. Mixed Media on Panel. 55 x 44cm	The Bore 3. Mixed Media on Panel. 55 x 44cm	The Bore 4. Mixed Media on Panel. 55 x 44cm	The Bore 5. Mixed Media on Panel. 55 x 44cm

The Bore 6. Mixed Media on Panel. 55 x 44cm	The Bore 7. Mixed Media on Panel. 55 x 44cm	The Bore 8. Mixed Media on Panel. 55 x 44cm	The Bore 9. Mixed Media on Panel. 55 x 44cm	The Bore 10. Mixed Media on Panel. 55 x 44cm

The Bore 11. Mixed Media on Panel. 55 x 44cm	The Bore 12. Mixed Media on Panel. 55 x 44cm	The Bore 13. Mixed Media on Panel. 55 x 44cm	The Bore 14. Mixed Media on Panel. 55 x 44cm	The Bore 15. Mixed Media on Panel. 55 x 44cm

The Bore 16. Mixed Media on Panel. 55 x 44cm

Claybraes, or Weather Report : September - November 2007.
(Painting was painted in the field with Rabbit's Holes in it and White Marks of Flying over Bird's Droppings.)
Mixed Media on Canvas. 200 x 600cm.