A Big Thank You To Verdigris Art, London, ENGLAND.

A fine quintet of works from the ‘Night Swimmers’ series ships to London, for a project with Verdigris Art of London. A big thank you to their art procurement team and I very much look forward to seeing these four pieces in their new home.

New images have recently been added to the series and are available by contacting me.

Untitled nightswimmer

Untitled nightswimmer

Splish Splash Splosh !!!

I was relaxing in the pool and keeping cool under the waterfall. The Hotel was in El Paso. We were on tour, we had reached the border and it was a day off, it was a hot day. 

The noise of the water drowned out the outside world for a while. The running water seemed to drag the colour from the canvas in an endless stream into the cool bright blue pool.

Wave 1 in Gold

Wave 1 in Gold is heading out to Singapore to the walls of a new bathroom by the designers at Yabu Pushelburg.

Amongst others Elon Musk is the proud owner of a 6ft edition of Wave 1 in Gold here in Los Angeles. It looks great by the way. And just for fun I’m going to post the Green as well. This was the description of the original commission.

I gravitated to it because I saw it as something you could potentially mis-identify. I played with the pic (I do this with any image that inspires me to be further inspired and to figure out my attraction) and realize now why I liked it so much - when you alter the temps and color saturate, it becomes a richter-esque abstract but Better! lol. Could be a wave, an energy reading, sunset behind mountains, close-up on a sliced agate, etc. I love that it has mystery. 

In my mind, your composition has everything a 2-D piece should have - full, glorious color with areas of absolute blacks, greys and a pure light source you can't help but be riveted by. All this because the original photo is so good. Just like the original wave (and the "real" ocean!) it's a mesmerizing paradox: energetic and tranquil all at the same time. And, has so many tiny details for the eye to consider and explore.

My preference (when I altered using the mac iphoto program), was for a very moody predominance of green and golds with the blacks and whites still true but I have to say, it was absolutely splendid in fuchsia/navy, in orange/yellows and of course just saturated without altering the temps, it was pure lush. 

Wave 1 in Gold
Wave 1 in Green

'Heavenly Swim' adorns the walls in The New York Times

Photographic Art Work by Matthew Farrar @matfarrarimage.com

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/realestate/making-a-big-impact-on-a-small-budget.html

Add a Vintage Find

Not every piece of furniture and accessory needs to be a showstopper. A single distinctive object can create a focal point and enhance the appearance of a larger space.

“One special thing can elevate a whole room,” said Vanessa Alexander, the founder of Alexander Design, in Santa Monica, Calif. “We always try to include something vintage or one of a kind in every room. It’s something that can’t be easily replicated and has a story.”

In one Malibu, Calif., home, Ms. Alexander added a 1950s chair by Osvaldo Borsani to a corner of the living room. It is as much a sculptural element, she noted, as a place to sit.

For her own home in Malibu, she found a perforated, brass-globe pendant lamp at a flea market and had it rewired as a statement piece for a sunroom. “It adds a textural moment,” she said. “And at night, it gives off a pattern” when illuminated.

A vintage 1950s chair by Osvaldo Borsani serves as a sculptural element in a Malibu, Calif., living room by Alexander Design.CreditSam Frost