Watching the Tests

Nuclear Testing and the History of the Nevada Test Site.

This series of work is something I am coming back to [Feb 2012]

Stokes - Nevada - 19 Kilatons - 1957, 2007. Pen and ink on
paper.

Watching the tests i-ii-iii, 2007. Oil on panel.

 

Watching the tests iv, 2008. Oil on canvas.

 

Dog - 81 kilatons - Enewetak Atoll - 1951, 2007. Charcoal on
canvas.

Finistere after Keith Vaughan

My day job at the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery lets me have close up access to some fantastic art works. I have just been framing and hanging the pictures that accompany the Clocking On exhibiton of working lives in Bedfordshire and 'Finistere' particularly caught my attention for it's use of ink and gouache. The image above is my version, the real one is on display from 27th Feb at Bedford Gallery, Castle Lane Bedford.