Author Archives: dianapage
Frank Auerbach: painting uncertainty
Picking up on something I wrote a while back after visiting a major retrospective of Frank Auerbach’s work held at Tate Britain: Frank Auerbach creates a cathedral of perception and then invites his viewers to do the same in this … Continue reading
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Tagged frank auerbach, istanbul, leon kossoff, london, painting, richard diebenkorn, studio, tate, uncertainty, visual arts
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Swimming the distance of memory
Geographies of paintings done and redone. Having walked the long-mediated underground from the Metro station into the glammy Zorlu centre, arriving in Mamon, announced as it is, 250 m then 150m, then 100 only; a grey airless tunnel and I … Continue reading
Painting crows
What remains after a visit to the homeland? How to weave these skeins of memory, recent and past, into the work. I am left with a sense of the animation in the Karoo, our last stop before we were bulleted … Continue reading
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Late night maneuvering for Open Studio 2013
Photograph: Ya2eed Kamaldien http://yazkam.wordpress.com/ What is it about the prospect of an open studio that pulls me back into the paint, has me reworking a painting that has been la2ily checking me out from a corner of the studio. Or how … Continue reading
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Tagged art collecting, city, exhibition istanbul, istanbul, Istanbul interiors, open studio, painting, studio, studios
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Picturing the homes of two heroes (kahraman (Tr): hero)
I often have occasion to pass by the pink yali on the Bosphorus where Argonauts one of my recent Istanbul paintings now lives. Paying the painting and the home of its discerning collectors, the Kahraman family a visit I was … Continue reading
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Tagged Argonauts, Arnavutkoy, Bosphorus, istanbul, Istanbul interiors, Ottoman interiors, painting, Turkey
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Thinking about Running and Painting
Sometimes I run to my studio along the Bosphorus. A way to get my vision tuned afresh. The fishing boats are out casting their yellow spirals and pitching their tents on the silvery plains. Hot sepia tea is being served … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Katz, istanbul, painting, Running
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Picking plums on the Bosphoros.
From our studio window we watch a small boy nimbly scale the fence, and inhabit the garden. His absorption is complete as he sets about filling his pockets, with the green fruit (“erik”) of the plum tree, first his front … Continue reading
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Tagged bosphoros, infecting the city, istanbul, johannesburg, privileged space, studios, travel, visual arts
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Meeting at the coalface: open studio
Arriving at my studio the morning of Open Studio I see a huge gathering of people with barrows, carts and trucks. They are all buying coal. Studios are often tucked away in corners of the city far from the gentrified … Continue reading
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Tagged art collecting, bosphoros, istanbul, studio, visual arts
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Drawing the line
Heading back into the studio, pots of glaze lined up on the table, all geared up to paint Jane’s pots; what a treat. Another good way to get back into things if you got out of them is to go … Continue reading
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Tagged Antonio Lopez Garcia, city, commuting, drawing, istanbul, journey, metro, neo rauch, sketchbook, studio, walking
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