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<br />Robin Danelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573014208076370514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858289476403500653.post-60656094696616368792018-03-21T10:26:00.001-04:002018-03-21T10:26:23.321-04:00Artweeks!I'm going to be exhibiting in Artweeks this year -- Oxford's annual open studios event. If you're in the area, please pop in and say hi! I love to chat.<br />
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This is my studio, but actually I will be showing my work at the Headington County Library in Bury Knowle Park (because I don't want to invite you all into my bedroom). I'll be there from May 12 - 20, please check the library <a href="https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/content/headington-library?utm_source=FURL-1&utm_medium=headingtonlibrary&utm_term=nil&utm_content=&utm_campaign=headingtonlibrary" target="_blank">website </a>for opening hours.<br />
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More hands! I used to draw my hands in Calculus class in high school instead of taking notes, so naturally I had to make a living at something involving drawn hands rather than advanced math.</div>
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I made this piece when we lived in Kyoto a few years ago. I was so taken with the color combinations of the koi fish in all the many temple gardens, especially the ones with red and black splotches on creamy white and pink. Perfect little swimming works of art.</div>
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I started doing these color daub abstracts after some fitful portraits when I realized I liked the composition on my wiping rag better than what was on the canvas... I thought whoa, I can MAKE THIS THE CANVAS. </div>
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It's so fun and so freeing to work with straight color in an unstructured composition. It's almost like a musical composition: the notes have to harmonize, there has to be lots of space, and the drama has to come at just the right moment.</div>
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Robin Danelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573014208076370514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858289476403500653.post-40719522018385865362017-01-04T06:33:00.006-05:002017-01-04T15:46:23.228-05:00studio sale -- day 3This painting evolved over several years and many layers. I had thought it was finished, but I pulled it out of storage at one point and decided to go over it completely. I rarely work this way anymore -- nowadays I'd rather get something done in one or two sittings -- but I like that it's a documentation of my thought process. I like the idea of ideas accumulating and changing based on what's underneath.<br />
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Robin Danelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573014208076370514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858289476403500653.post-71620386831294642132016-11-23T06:56:00.000-05:002016-11-23T06:56:00.125-05:00experimentingI am afraid of making mistakes.<br />
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I tell my artist friends, <i>There are no mistakes!</i> And then I'm still afraid of making mistakes.<br />
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So then I don't take risks and I stick to what I know, because the other option -- the possibility of mistakes option -- is so uncomfortable.<br />
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<i>What a waste of time.</i><br />
<i>What a waste of paint.</i><br />
<i>This is not going to go anywhere.</i><br />
<i>This doesn't mean anything. </i><br />
<i>What are you even doing.</i><br />
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Portraits of your kids, parents, pets, or friends make amazing and lasting holiday gifts!<br />
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I'm holding a contest for the chance to win an original 8 x 10" painting (in oil, on archival paper) of the subject of your choice, at the promotional price of $150 / £120 (normal price is $250 / £200).<br />
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I will select three names at random from the comments, and the winners will be announced Sunday, October 30th!<br />
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How do I untangle all the thoughts that are in here? How do I find in me the thought that is authentic, and not just a reaction or a snarky riff on someone else's reaction? The cacophany is deafening.<br />
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I spent lovely weeks in Michigan, especially at the lake: perfect weather, pampered by grandparents, no wi-fi. All the usual hang-ups of whiny kids, difficult bedtimes, but ohhhhhh that lake, and that sand. It was all worth it.<br />
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Now back in Oxford, trying to get back in to some semblance of a rhythm with work and school and baby. Trying as usual to get my head around our situation, our finances, our general trajectory.<br />
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And how shall I find other artists? And how shall I make money making art? And how shall I make art that reveals my heart and my politics and my determined urgent ferocity? How shall I assemble all the pieces so that the whole makes a loose and poetic and insouciant kind of sense?<br />
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God help me! I am your instrument: I will tune my strings and not waste their resonance in the void of the internet.<br />
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Clearing away some cobwebs, trying to make time at the easel, trying to find the rhythm of work with an 8-month old baby: things don't usually get done on time, in the right order, or according to plan. I approach everything with the same sleep-deprived urgent ferocity: sew Auden's Halloween costume, make list of portraits to paint, get into fights with racist strangers on Facebook, MAKE DINNER. </div>
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<br />Robin Danelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573014208076370514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858289476403500653.post-40658041149550836582016-05-20T12:29:00.000-04:002016-05-20T12:34:41.378-04:00show-offI'm excited to announce the opening of my art show this weekend, in the Churchill Hospital's South Street Gallery!<br>
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Last month my dad & step-mom were here for a visit, and I tasked them with building frames for all my wonky imperial-sized canvases (custom frames would have been ridiculously expensive) (even standard frames are ridiculously expensive). </div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTDt5yG0PVrZcxC54r4rarhsDUHcA5-FnBtlEG3thWMc9eswbTFW4BuWLWSn2WVy2SuZ9aDe1u2SUaxTRTTVMp7qnxWgZ0etuWx4TyWJWR0miq3z4CMFZtX2ztx9QksjWeZpY_GXLdFTi2/s640/blogger-image--1674381372.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTDt5yG0PVrZcxC54r4rarhsDUHcA5-FnBtlEG3thWMc9eswbTFW4BuWLWSn2WVy2SuZ9aDe1u2SUaxTRTTVMp7qnxWgZ0etuWx4TyWJWR0miq3z4CMFZtX2ztx9QksjWeZpY_GXLdFTi2/s640/blogger-image--1674381372.jpg"></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">They cranked out more than 10 in a few short days, but I still had a few more to finish after they left.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivAe4sG6Hqnb0LZ3b0wX2afOXjUDCRj3_NXrGiRz2kHiYk4SRxBRHqlwvubLaFAeJ2Hn6yXr7KFfWlxA37AA-S8GQwoNrmlBnm8umOuqxh6mllWowgRsecP0Qx7nY2T8Mqyy8wbJ_nCVIv/s640/blogger-image--440795374.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivAe4sG6Hqnb0LZ3b0wX2afOXjUDCRj3_NXrGiRz2kHiYk4SRxBRHqlwvubLaFAeJ2Hn6yXr7KFfWlxA37AA-S8GQwoNrmlBnm8umOuqxh6mllWowgRsecP0Qx7nY2T8Mqyy8wbJ_nCVIv/s640/blogger-image--440795374.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But the efoort was worth it: they turned out so simple and pretty.</div></div><div>
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Getting into some kind of rhythm. But now of course I am already heart-achingly nostalgic for that wide and raw and delirious landscape that I can never visit again. Sweet newborn, what a convoluted blessing!</div></div><br></div>*</div><br></div><br></div>Robin Danelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01573014208076370514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858289476403500653.post-45450859098328395322016-02-26T08:32:00.000-05:002016-02-26T08:43:01.066-05:00birthquakeI've never run a marathon. I am not a runner. So it's amusing to me that that's the go-to comparison for the physical and mental demands of labor: <i>It's like running a marathon.</i><br />
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